WONKY


Meaning of WONKY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ /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 .

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.