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wonk
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"overly studious person," 1962, earlier "effeminate male" (1954), American English student slang. Perhaps a shortening of British slang wonky "shaky, unreliable," or a variant of British slang wanker "masturbator." It seemed to rise into currency as a synonym for nerd late 1980s from Ivy League slang and was widely popularized 1993 during the presidency of Bill Clinton. Tom Wolfe (1988) described it as "an Eastern prep-school term referring to all those who do not have the 'honk' voice, i.e., all who are non-aristocratic."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context derogatory English) An overly studious person, particularly student; a nerd. 2 (context by extension English) A policy wonk or other intellectual expert.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Wonk may refer to:
- Wonky (music), an experimental genre of electronic music
- Wonk (character), a character from The Adventures of Wonk by Muriel Levy
- Wonk, in the List of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo characters
Wonk is a character from The Adventures of Wonk by Muriel Levy with illustrations by Kiddell-Monroe. Published by Ladybird Books in the 1940s, these children's classics are now extremely rare. Wonk is a creature best described as a cuddly Koala-like bear who gets himself into all sorts of trouble. He is the constant companion of a little boy called Peter.
Surviving copies of the Wonk books seem to be extremely fragile, perhaps due to paper shortages during the Second World War which caused the printers to use a high-acid containing paper with very poor longevity.
Category:20th-century British children's literature Category:Series of children's books Category:Characters in children's literature
Usage examples of "wonk".
She did not seem to know what was what, and it hurt, and made me mad, so I went over to Adams, who was just getting up, and gave him this like proxy wonk on top of his head, in exchange for the biting.
And I began to wonk and wonk, and once they had fallen back, with Adams and his teenage boy huddled over the littlest one, who had unfortunately flown relatively far due to a bit of a kick I had given her, I took out my lighter and fired up the bag, the bag of toxics, and made for the light at the top of the stairs, where I knew the door was, and the night was, and my freedom, and my home.
Comfortmobile north, up to the Canadian border, as I scoop out the news bites for my trusty crime-fighting companion Anna-Louise, hunched at my side, fiendishly scanning the FM dial with the SEEK button in pursuit of hiphop stations from the coast, which wonk in and out of reception clarity.
His most recent triumph had been the development of the infected handkerchief that the CIA mailed to General Abdul Karim al-Kassem, the Iraq military strongman who had fallen afoul of the wonks who masterminded American foreign policy.
Social Security, and politics is boringcomplex, abstract, dry, the province of policy wonks and Rush Limbaugh and nerdy little guys on PBS, and basically who cares.
I went and he was standing at the mirror, still in his goddam underwear, only now he had on a shirt, and I wonked him again as he was turning.
And whatever current theories said should be, that still made a great wonking difference.
Groucho had voiced his skepticism about joining any club that would accept him as a member, and Dexter had his doubts about the hypocrisy of sucking up egoboo from an unwholesome tribe of nerdish wonks.
Social Security, and politics is boringcomplex, abstract, dry, the province of policy wonks and Rush Limbaugh and nerdy little guys on PBS, and basically who cares.
TV preachers and advertising wonks and political speech writers and leadership obfuscators and terrorist instigators and audience-bating gurus will find they all have fewer followers.
Possibly the disguise might be improved to the greater satisfaction of an and create even more merriment for the many were they to leave this place upon four feet instead of two—perchance in the form of a mangy alleycat and that of a flea-bitten Wonk, in which to howl a mirthful duet to the uncaring moon?
Except that Kilgrew had inherited most of his wealth, determined to build it early on, and in the process became one of the most publicized computer wonks in the world, building not only that stock monitor you've got over there to super-speed series blaggards, plus their software.
Nothing ferrous, including handcuffs and shackles, is permitted, and only plastic flex-cuffs restrain Basil’s ankles and wrists as he lies on the table inside the magnet, listening to the jarring knocks and wonks of radiofrequency pulses that sound like infernal music played on high-voltage power lines—or that’s what Benton imagines.