wonky

英语

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/
• (通用美式) 英语发音：wŏngʹkē、国际音标^(帮助): /ˈwɑŋ.ki/, /ˈwɔŋ.ki/

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• 韵部：-ɒŋki

词源 1

源自英语方言词 wanky，变换自中古英语 wankel (“不稳的，摇摇晃晃的”)，源自古英语 wancol (“不稳定的”)，源自原始西日耳曼语 *wankul (“摇曳的，摇晃的，不稳的”)。

形容词

wonky (比较级 wonkier，最高级 wonkiest)

1. 歪斜的，偏倚的

   近义词：lopsided、awry、misaligned、skew-whiff

2. (主要用于英国，澳大利亚，新西兰) 虚弱的，不稳的，摇摇欲坠的

   近义词：rickety

   • 1932, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Terror of the Form:

     It seemed likely that he would need First Aid when those wonky steps yielded, at length, to the well-known law of gravitation.

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3. (非正式，计算机，尤指Usenet) 断断续续出现错误（bug）的

   近义词：buggy、broken

4. (非正式) 错误的

衍生词汇

• wonky hole

名词

wonky (不可数)

1. (音乐) 本词语需要翻译为汉语。请协助添加，并移除{{rfdef}}模板。
   • 2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers

     By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]

词源 2

wonk +‎ -y

形容词

wonky (比较级 wonkier，最高级 wonkiest)

1. 行话的，充满行话的
   • 2009, Jesse Dale Holcomb, Faith, Science and Trust: Climate Change Framing Effects and Conservative Protestant Opinion

     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.

   • 2010, Michael Maslansky, Scott West, Gary DeMoss, David Saylor, The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics

     McCain's message, while similar in content and equally as valid, is lost in the minutiae of “'high-risk' pools” and wonky jargon.

异序词

• y'know