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wonky
/wongkee/ , 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.