wonky

Meanings

Adjective

• Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
• Feeble, shaky or rickety.
• Suffering from intermittent bugs.
• Generally incorrect.
• Technically worded, in the style of jargon.

Noun

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

Origin

• From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel, from Old English wancol, from Proto-West Germanic *wankul.
• wonk + -y