Junky vs Janky - What's the difference?
junky | janky |
Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality.
(slang, pejorative)
(slang) of poor quality, odd
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(jargon, computing, rare) Unresponsive (of a software application’s user interface), sluggish.
As adjectives the difference between junky and janky
is that junky is resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality while janky is of poor quality, odd.As a noun junky
is an alternative spelling of lang=en.junky
English
Adjective
(er)Noun
(junkies)janky
English
Adjective
(er)- Oh man, that's a janky setup.
See also
* clankyReferences
* OED 2004 *Double-Tongued Dictionary