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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)
- 歪斜的,偏倚的
- 近义词: lopsided、awry、misaligned、skew-whiff
- (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.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- (非正式, 计算机, 尤指Usenet) 断断续续出现错误(bug)的
- (非正式) 错误的
衍生词汇
- wonky hole
名词
wonky(不可数)
- (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,” […]
- 2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers
词源 2
wonk + -y
形容词
wonky(比较级 wonkier,最高级 wonkiest)
- 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.
- 2009, Jesse Dale Holcomb, Faith, Science and Trust: Climate Change Framing Effects and Conservative Protestant Opinion
异序词
- y'know
