wonky UK /ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/US /ˈwɑŋ.ki/adjective 6noun 1forms 2 adjective6 •Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.Who's this gimp with a wonky eye / I don't know but his lips are dry — 2016 •(UK, Australia) Feeble, shaky or rickety.It seemed likely that he would need First Aid when those wonky steps yielded, at length, to the well-known law of gravitation. — 1932 •(informal) Generally incorrect.“It’s the ‘societal value’ part this looks wonky to me,” Mr. [Lee] McIntyre said in an email to The Times. — 2026 •(informal) Suffering from intermittent bugs. •Technically worded, in the style of jargon.Climate change is an issue that might lend itself more easily to thematic framing in the news, due to the often highly technical and wonky language required to explain it. — 2009 •Technical in nature, difficult for non-specialists to understand. noun1 •A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […] — 2015 formswonkier · wonkiest
