- a variation of wonky.
Etymology
Origin of wonkish
First recorded in 1925–30
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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
“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
And she added some new, off-brand material for a candidate who rose in the polls last year on the strength of her myriad plans and reputation as a wonkish fighter.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2020
The book, wise but not wonkish, is an argument for foresight, by which Venkataraman means not the ability to look into the future but the willingness to do so.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 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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