- a variation of wonky.
Etymology
Origin of wonkish
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Friedman, who could pass for an art school professor with her blue-framed statement glasses, slightly oversized suits and occasionally magenta-tinted long bob, is wonkish and deliberate.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024
He also agreed that the book attempts to negotiate the fine line between being a wonkish academic treatise, and being over-distilled — and it may not always succeed to people’s tastes on either side.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2021
“These words that we’re using are so wonkish; they’re not good a conveying the scale and the grandeur of what’s happening here,” Booker said in an interview.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2021
He was a balding, wonkish establishmentarian when he met Lucinda Franks, 27 years his junior, in 1976.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2019
Stuart Hutchison, thirty- four, attired in a Ren and Stimpy T-shirt, was a cerebral, somewhat wonkish Canadian cardiologist on leave from a research fellowship.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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