wonkn.¹

/wɒŋk/

Forms: Also wunk.

Etymology: Said to represent pronunciation of Chinese huāng gŏu yellow dog.

In China, a dog. Also wonk dog.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun]

houndc897

dogOE

cur?c1225

cur-dog?c1225

barker1393

tykec1400

bawtiec1536

bufe1567

cute1622

bow-wow1785

buffer1819

growler1822

purp1861

canine1863

ki-yi1884

dawg1898

wonk1900

mong1903

pooch1908

poochie1934

1900 H. A. Giles Gloss. Subj. 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.

1909 J. 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.

1939 ‘A. Bridge’ Four-part Setting i. 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

wonkn.²

/wɒŋk/

Etymology: In sense 1 related to wonky adj.¹ The other senses may represent different words.

slang.

†1. In all of a wonk: nervous, upset. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [adjective] > nervous

nervous1740

nerve-shaken1818

twitchety1859

nervy1873

trepidatious1904

all of a wonk1918

spooky1926

squirrelly1928

jittery1931

spooked1937

hinky1956

psyched1961

nattery1966

1918 Chambers's Jrnl. May 299/1 I feel all of a doo-dah, all of a wonk.

2. Nautical. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > [noun] > naval officer > midshipman > junior

crab1916

wart1916

wonk1929

1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 153 Wonk, a useless hand, or a young naval cadet who has not yet learnt the elements of his job.

1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 134/1 Wonk, midshipman.

3. Australian.

a. A white person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun]

white mana1398

Christian1622

European1666

white-face1684

long knife1784

buckra1794

sahib1796

white-skin1803

whitey1811

Pakeha1817

papalagi1817

paleface1823

whitefellow1826

Abelungu1836

haole1843

gringo1849

lightiea1855

umlungu1859

mzungu1860

heaven-burster1861

ladino1877

mooniasc1880

Conchy Joe1888

béké1889

ofay1899

ridge runner1904

Ngati Pakeha1905

kelch1912

pink1913

leucoderm1924

fay1927

Mr Charlie1928

pinkie1935

devil1938

wonk1938

oaf1941

grey1943

paddy1945

Caucasoid1956

Jumble1957

Caucasian1958

white boy1958

pinko-grey1964

honky1967

toubab1976

palagi1977

1938 X. 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.

1959 S. J. Baker 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man

badlingeOE

milksopc1390

cockneyc1405

malkina1425

molla1425

weakling1526

tenderling1541

softling1543

niceling1549

woman-man1567

cocknel1570

effeminate1583

androgyne1587

meacock1590

mammaday1593

hermaphrodite1594

midwife1596

nimfadoro1600

night-sneaker1611

mock-mana1625

nan1670

she-man1675

petit maître1711

old woman1717

master-miss1754

Miss Molly1754

molly1785

squaw1805

mollycoddle1823

Miss Nancy1824

mollycot1826

molly mop1829

poof1833

Margery?c1855

ladyboy1857

girl1862

Mary Ann1868

sissy1879

milk1881

pretty-boy1881

nancy1888

poofter1889

Nancy Dawson1890

softie1895

puff1902

pussy1904

Lizzie1905

nance1910

quean1910

maricon1921

pie-face1922

bitch1923

Jessie1923

lily1923

tapette1923

pansy1926

nancy boy1927

nelly1931

femme1932

ponce1932

queerie1933

palone1934

queenie1935

girlie-man1940

swish1941

puss1942

wonk1945

mother1947

candy-ass1953

twink1953

cream puff1958

pronk1959

swishy1959

limp wrist1960

pansy-ass1963

weeny1963

poofteroo1966

mo1968

shim1973

twinkie1977

woofter1977

cake boy1992

hermaphrodite-

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male

badlingeOE

nan1670

molly1708

Miss Molly1754

Miss Nancy1824

molly mop1829

poof1833

Margery?c1855

Mary Ann1868

pretty-boy1881

cocksucker1885

poofter1889

queer1894

fruit1895

fairy1896

homosexualist1898

puff1902

pussy1904

nance1910

quean1910

girl1912

faggot1913

mouser1914

queen1919

fag1921

gay boy1921

maricon1921

pie-face1922

bitch1923

Jessie1923

tapette1923

pansy1926

nancy boy1927

nelly1931

femme1932

ponce1932

punk1933

queerie1933

gobbler1934

jocker1935

queenie1935

iron1936

freak1941

swish1941

flit1942

tonk1943

wonk1945

mother1947

fruitcake1952

Mary1953

twink1953

swishy1959

limp wrist1960

arse bandit1961

leather man1961

booty bandit1962

ginger beer1964

bummer1965

poofteroo1966

shirtlifter1966

battyman1967

dick-sucker1968

mo1968

a friend of Dorothy1972

shim1973

gaylord1976

twinkie1977

woofter1977

bender1986

knob jockey1989

batty boy1992

cake boy1992

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 123 An effeminate male is a..gussie, spurge and wonk.

1970 P. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > steady, continuous, or dull > one who

treadmiller1923

slogger1928

wonk1962

1962 Sports Illustr. 17 Dec. 21 A wonk, sometimes called a ‘turkey’ or a ‘lunch’, roughly corresponds to the ‘meatball’ of a decade ago.

1970 E. 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?

1980 N.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’.)

Draft additions June 2006

ˈwonkish adj. originally U.S. Politics 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.

ΚΠ

1970 S. Kelmann Push comes to Shove 88 Harry is afraid that with you and Dave, the room is going to become too political and wonkish.

1992 Washington 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.

1997 J. Krakauer Into Thin Air iii. 37 Stuart Hutchison..was a cerebral, somewhat wonkish Canadian cardiologist on leave from a research fellowship.

2001 N.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.

2004 Observer 11 Jan. (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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	wonk
释义	wonkn.¹ /wɒŋk/ Forms: Also wunk. Etymology: Said to represent pronunciation of Chinese huāng gŏu yellow dog. In China, a dog. Also wonk dog. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] houndc897 dogOE cur?c1225 cur-dog?c1225 barker1393 tykec1400 bawtiec1536 bufe1567 cute1622 bow-wow1785 buffer1819 growler1822 purp1861 canine1863 ki-yi1884 dawg1898 wonk1900 mong1903 pooch1908 poochie1934 1900 H. A. Giles Gloss. Subj. 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. 1909 J. 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. 1939 ‘A. Bridge’ Four-part Setting i. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). wonkn.² /wɒŋk/ Etymology: In sense 1 related to wonky adj.¹ The other senses may represent different words. slang. †1. In all of a wonk: nervous, upset. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [adjective] > nervous nervous1740 nerve-shaken1818 twitchety1859 nervy1873 trepidatious1904 all of a wonk1918 spooky1926 squirrelly1928 jittery1931 spooked1937 hinky1956 psyched1961 nattery1966 1918 Chambers's Jrnl. May 299/1 I feel all of a doo-dah, all of a wonk. 2. Nautical. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > [noun] > naval officer > midshipman > junior crab1916 wart1916 wonk1929 1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 153 Wonk, a useless hand, or a young naval cadet who has not yet learnt the elements of his job. 1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 134/1 Wonk, midshipman. 3. Australian. a. A white person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] white mana1398 Christian1622 European1666 white-face1684 long knife1784 buckra1794 sahib1796 white-skin1803 whitey1811 Pakeha1817 papalagi1817 paleface1823 whitefellow1826 Abelungu1836 haole1843 gringo1849 lightiea1855 umlungu1859 mzungu1860 heaven-burster1861 ladino1877 mooniasc1880 Conchy Joe1888 béké1889 ofay1899 ridge runner1904 Ngati Pakeha1905 kelch1912 pink1913 leucoderm1924 fay1927 Mr Charlie1928 pinkie1935 devil1938 wonk1938 oaf1941 grey1943 paddy1945 Caucasoid1956 Jumble1957 Caucasian1958 white boy1958 pinko-grey1964 honky1967 toubab1976 palagi1977 1938 X. 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. 1959 S. J. Baker 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. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man badlingeOE milksopc1390 cockneyc1405 malkina1425 molla1425 weakling1526 tenderling1541 softling1543 niceling1549 woman-man1567 cocknel1570 effeminate1583 androgyne1587 meacock1590 mammaday1593 hermaphrodite1594 midwife1596 nimfadoro1600 night-sneaker1611 mock-mana1625 nan1670 she-man1675 petit maître1711 old woman1717 master-miss1754 Miss Molly1754 molly1785 squaw1805 mollycoddle1823 Miss Nancy1824 mollycot1826 molly mop1829 poof1833 Margery?c1855 ladyboy1857 girl1862 Mary Ann1868 sissy1879 milk1881 pretty-boy1881 nancy1888 poofter1889 Nancy Dawson1890 softie1895 puff1902 pussy1904 Lizzie1905 nance1910 quean1910 maricon1921 pie-face1922 bitch1923 Jessie1923 lily1923 tapette1923 pansy1926 nancy boy1927 nelly1931 femme1932 ponce1932 queerie1933 palone1934 queenie1935 girlie-man1940 swish1941 puss1942 wonk1945 mother1947 candy-ass1953 twink1953 cream puff1958 pronk1959 swishy1959 limp wrist1960 pansy-ass1963 weeny1963 poofteroo1966 mo1968 shim1973 twinkie1977 woofter1977 cake boy1992 hermaphrodite- the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male badlingeOE nan1670 molly1708 Miss Molly1754 Miss Nancy1824 molly mop1829 poof1833 Margery?c1855 Mary Ann1868 pretty-boy1881 cocksucker1885 poofter1889 queer1894 fruit1895 fairy1896 homosexualist1898 puff1902 pussy1904 nance1910 quean1910 girl1912 faggot1913 mouser1914 queen1919 fag1921 gay boy1921 maricon1921 pie-face1922 bitch1923 Jessie1923 tapette1923 pansy1926 nancy boy1927 nelly1931 femme1932 ponce1932 punk1933 queerie1933 gobbler1934 jocker1935 queenie1935 iron1936 freak1941 swish1941 flit1942 tonk1943 wonk1945 mother1947 fruitcake1952 Mary1953 twink1953 swishy1959 limp wrist1960 arse bandit1961 leather man1961 booty bandit1962 ginger beer1964 bummer1965 poofteroo1966 shirtlifter1966 battyman1967 dick-sucker1968 mo1968 a friend of Dorothy1972 shim1973 gaylord1976 twinkie1977 woofter1977 bender1986 knob jockey1989 batty boy1992 cake boy1992 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 123 An effeminate male is a..gussie, spurge and wonk. 1970 P. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > steady, continuous, or dull > one who treadmiller1923 slogger1928 wonk1962 1962 Sports Illustr. 17 Dec. 21 A wonk, sometimes called a ‘turkey’ or a ‘lunch’, roughly corresponds to the ‘meatball’ of a decade ago. 1970 E. 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? 1980 N.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’.) Draft additions June 2006 ˈwonkish adj. originally U.S. Politics 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. ΚΠ 1970 S. Kelmann Push comes to Shove 88 Harry is afraid that with you and Dave, the room is going to become too political and wonkish. 1992 Washington 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. 1997 J. Krakauer Into Thin Air iii. 37 Stuart Hutchison..was a cerebral, somewhat wonkish Canadian cardiologist on leave from a research fellowship. 2001 N.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. 2004 Observer 11 Jan. (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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹1900n.²1918
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