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Dec 11, 2009
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wonky: /wong´kee/, 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.

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