Dictionary entry

Wonky

Pronunciation: /ˈwɒŋki/

Pronunciation

/ˈwɒŋki/

Myanmar Meaning

ကောက်ကွေ့သော။ လျော့လျဲသော။ မတည်ငြိမ်သော။ စိတ်မချရသော။

Definition

wonky /'wɒŋki/ adj ( Brit infml ) နဲ႔ေသာ။ ခ်ည့္ေသာ။ a wonky chair.

Examples

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