wonky
/ˈwɒŋki/
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American sound/ˈwɒŋki/
wonky
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- 2 syllables
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- Final y vowel sound
won - ky -> wonky
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘He chatted in between the songs telling jokes and relating weird stories, he drank beer too, he climbed on the grand piano, he threw flowers into the audience and he fell to his knees more often than a nun with a wonky knee.’
- ‘The most I could manage without cocking things up was a wonky line of cross-stitch.’
- ‘To further the debate, or for a cheap gag against a Scouser with a very-slightly wonky gob, who has the temerity to be married to the most powerful man in the country without even ever killing a fox?’
- ‘Dismayed residents of Beach Road, Canvey, reckoned Castle Point Council pulled the plug on the scheme to repair drains and replace wonky footpaths, after running out of money.’
- ‘You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.’
- ‘Seventy plus males all fighting over the remote control, forgetting your birthday or nailing wonky shelves to the firmament without first reading the instructions?’
- ‘Side kicks are tough for me, ‘cause I have wonky hips, but everything else wasn't too bad.’
- ‘I was taking screenshots & putting them in the documentation, but now the engineer has debugging turned on and the pages look all wonky.’
- ‘That means 46% have such fetid breath and wonky teeth that lonely nights, feverish thoughts and painfully stubborn virginity seem an inevitability.’
- ‘Since I had never mastered the threading of a sewing machine, let alone made an item of clothing, this was taking a risk, but I was soon chalking out patterns and even running up the odd wonky seam without mishap.’
- ‘From the corner of Décarie and Jean-Talon, you can also, for another 10 days, see Cheval Théâtre's wonky Medieval-inspired tents in the distance.’
- ‘I'm 91 next month but I enjoy good health, apart from a wonky heart and two wonky knees.’
- ‘There are spelling mistakes, the print is wonky, the setting of words completely misinterpreted, and to top it all, a font that I've never in my life used, appears in three random words on the care label.’
- ‘The names of the tracks were printed on the album sleeve in wonky black type, making them look like classic anonymous ransom demands cobbled together from letters cut out of newspapers.’
- ‘Half-timbered buildings, all pastel-shaded, push out over them, looking terribly wonky - as they've doubtless looked for 700 years.’
- ‘My grandma told me (not in these exact words…) that Sean's head was wonky and I should rub his lumpy skull while it was still soft.’
- ‘So now I've a wonky mattress… I SO need a new bed (donations gratefully received LOL)!’
- ‘My housemate can't bear her because she ‘has a wonky nose’!’
- ‘But it is precisely that wonky smile, lugubrious air and bitter chocolate voice that pierces the hearts of the toughest ball-breaking women of my acquaintance.’
- ‘Now I don't know what is the stranger word, blogging or wonky.’
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