Wonky /wong'kee/ Adj. [from Australian Slang] Yet Another Approximate Synonym For Broken.

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wonky /wong'kee/ adj.

[from Australian slang] Yet another
approximate synonym for broken. Specifically connotes a
malfunction that produces behavior seen as crazy, humorous, or
amusingly perverse. "That was the day the printer's font logic
went wonky and everybody's listings came out in Tengwar." Also in
`wonked out'. See funky, demented, bozotic

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