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▪ I. wonk1|wɒŋk|
Also wunk.
[Said to repr. pronunc. of Chin. huāng gŏu yellow dog.]
In China, a dog. Also wonk dog.
1900H. A. Giles Gloss. Subjects Far East (ed. 3) 318 Wunk,..yellow dog. A term commonly applied by foreigners to the ordinary Chinese dog. From the Ningpo pronunciation woun kyi, of the above two characters. 1909J. O. P. Bland Houseboat Days in China vii. 78 Particularly around the great cities you find him of the modern type, sporting a muzzle-loader..and a half-trained wonk. 1939‘A. Bridge’ Four-Part Setting i. 4 Away in the Chinese village a wonk dog bayed at the moon. Ibid. 5 There are all these Chinks and wonks about—you oughtn't to go alone. 1967‘A. Cordell’ Bright Cantonese vi. 67 Starving wonk dogs, the scavengers of China.
▪ II. wonk2 slang.|wɒŋk|
[In sense 1 related to wonky a. The other senses may represent different words.]
†1. In phr. all of a wonk, nervous, upset. Obs. rare.
1918[see doodah 1].
2. Naut. (See quots.)
1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 153 Wonk, a useless hand, or a young naval cadet who has not yet learnt the elements of his job. 1962W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 134/1 Wonk, midshipman.
3. Austral.
a. A white person.
1938X. Herbert Capricornia 252 He went to the Dagoes and Roughs of second-class and won their friendship by..telling them how he had been cast out by the Wonks of the saloon. 1959Baker Drum 157 Wonk, a white man or white woman. Aborigines (esp. half-castes) use this pejorative much as whites use the word boong to denote an aboriginal.
b. An effeminate or homosexual man.
1945Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 123 An effeminate male is a..gussie, spurge and wonk. 1970P. White Vivisector 213 I'd have to have a chauffeur to drive me about—with a good body—just for show, though. I wouldn't mind if the chauffeur was a wonk.
4. U.S. A disparaging term for a studious or hard-working person.
1962Sports Illustrated 17 Dec. 21 A wonk, sometimes called a ‘turkey’ or a ‘lunch’, roughly corresponds to the ‘meatball’ of a decade ago. 1970E. Segal Love Story 32 Who could Jenny be talking to that was worth appropriating moments set aside for a date with me? Some musical wonk? 1980N.Y. Times Mag. 20 July 8 At Harvard the excessively studious student is derided as a ‘wonk’, which Amy Berman, Harvard '79, fancifully suggests may be ‘know’ spelled backward. (In British slang, ‘wonky’ means ‘unsteady’.)
▸ wonkish adj. orig. U.S. Polit. excessively concerned with minute points of (governmental) policy (cf. policy wonk n. at policy n.1 Compounds 2); (also more generally) bookish, intellectual; extremely detailed or specialized.
1992Washington Post 7 Mar. a11/1 There is a lot of *wonkish material in here: ‘targeted tax credits’, ‘community policing’, all manner of education and social service reform. 1997J. Krakauer Into Thin Air iii. 37 Stuart Hutchison..was a cerebral, somewhat wonkish Canadian cardiologist on leave from a research fellowship. 2001N.Y. Times 12 Aug. i. 35/1 Mr. Hevesi is nothing if not wonkish. As he campaigns for the Democratic mayoral nomination he seems to take genuine delight in the arcana of municipal government and finance. 2004Observer 11 Jan. (Observer Mag.) 25/2 In a wonkish, engineering way he had discussed with his team the telemetry they might observe if a hole allowed hot gases into the wing during re-entry. |