wonky.
Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
Meaning & usage
Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
Feeble, shaky or rickety.
Suffering from intermittent bugs.
Generally incorrect.
Where this word comes from
From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).
A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
Where this word comes from
From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).
Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
Technical in nature, difficult for non-specialists to understand.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English wonk Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English wonky From wonk + -y.
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