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
- ‘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.’