Wonky vs Wonkish - What's the difference?
wonky | wonkish | Related terms |
Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
(chiefly, British, Australia, NZ) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
(computing, especially Usenet) Suffering from intermittent bugs; broken.
Generally incorrect.
Nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk
*{{quote-book, 1997, Edwin Diamond & Robert A. Silverman, White House to Your House
, passage=According to Greer, the voting classes were ready for someone very much like the wonkish Clinton, with his devotion to "the issues." }}
Wonkish is a related term of wonky.
As adjectives the difference between wonky and wonkish
is that wonky is lopsided, misaligned or off-centre while wonkish is nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk.wonky
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* awry, lonkie, skew-whiffDerived terms
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