wonky

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
2. (Australia, British, Ireland, New-Zealand) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
3. (informal) Suffering from intermittent bugs.
4. (informal) Generally incorrect.

Noun

A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.

Concepts

fatigué

délabré

vieux

🧓

bancal

branlant

chancelant

vacillant

chambranlant

boiteux

qui manque de symétrie

caduc

Synonymes

shaky

cockeyed

rickety

lopsided

groggy

askew

faint

infirm

languid

languorous

fatigued

awry

crooked

drooping

droopy

exhausted

oblique

prostrate

run-down

sluggish

tired

😫

washy

weak

weakly

wobbly

skew-whiff

wry

sneaky

wiggly

tortuous

tottery

underhand

underhanded

unstable

feeble

warped

wily

angled

rocky

squinty

cranky

skew

skewed

sloping

Traductions

bitkin

dermansız

müde

😫

cansado

😫

stanco

😫

halsız

cansado

😪

مرهق

vermoeid

onstabiel

onvast

wankel

ξεχαρβαλωμένος

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: wankel

Hérité de ancien anglais: wancol

In summary

From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).