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Word entry · 5 letters

wonky

Best crossword clue

"Unsteady"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/Part of speech adjectiveSorted knowyStarts with WEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect

Word origin

From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).

Used in a sentence

  • Who's this gimp with a wonky eye / I don't know but his lips are dry
  • It seemed likely that he would need First Aid when those wonky steps yielded, at length, to the well-known law of gravitation.
  • By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]

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