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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wonky</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="womble.html" title="womble"/><link rel="next" href="workaround.html" title="workaround"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wonky</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="womble.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="workaround.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wonky"/><dt xmlns="" id="wonky"><b>wonky</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wong´kee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Australian slang] Yet another approximate synonym for
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<a href="../B/broken.html"><i class="glossterm">broken</i></a>. Specifically connotes a malfunction that
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produces behavior seen as crazy, humorous, or amusingly perverse.
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“<span class="quote">That was the day the printer's font logic went wonky and everybody's
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listings came out in Tengwar.</span>” Also in <span class="firstterm">wonked out</span>. See <a href="../F/funky.html"><i class="glossterm">funky</i></a>,
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<a href="../D/demented.html"><i class="glossterm">demented</i></a>, <a href="../B/bozotic.html"><i class="glossterm">bozotic</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="womble.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="workaround.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">womble </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> workaround</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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