wonky

2 definitions found

wonky - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  wonky
      adj 1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a
             gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig
             was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: askew,
             awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff]
      2: inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety
         table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a
         little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the
         arches is wonky" [syn: rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky]

wonky - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  wonky
   /wong'kee/, adj.
  
     [from Australian slang] Yet another approximate synonym for broken.
     Specifically connotes a malfunction that produces behavior seen as
     crazy, humorous, or amusingly perverse. "That was the day the
     printer's font logic went wonky and everybody's listings came out in
     Tengwar." Also in wonked out. See funky, demented, bozotic.