wonky
A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures,…A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
» The old man's gait is wonky.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
Examples
5 sentencesThe old man's gait is wonky.
This table is wonky.
The picture is wonky.
deDas Bild hängt schief. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Eat your wonky veg.
deIss dein Krüppelgemüse! — Pfirsichbaeumchen
The picture is wonky. Could you straighten it?
deDas Bild hängt schief. Könntest du es wieder geraderichten? — raggione
Origin
From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), froFrom English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable