wonky

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

bitkin

dermansız

müde

😫

vermoeid

cansado

😪

halsız

stanco

😫

délabré

fatigué

مرهق

cansado

😫

vacillant

chancelant

boiteux

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wankel

Inherited from Old English: 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”).