wonkish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "According to Greer, the voting classes were ready for someone very much like the wonkish Clinton, with his devotion to "the issues.""
- "Hillary may have been too wonkish, and Palin not wonkish enough, but they have normalized white females as political candidates for the nation."
- "Being a renegade Islamo-punk had run its course, but now I answered brothers' questions in a wonkish intellectual way, ducking and weaving around the truth claims."
- "Etzler was a follower of the wonkish French utopian Charles Fourier, who promised that the scientific reinvention of nature would transmute the saltwater into lemonade."
Etymology
Etymology tree English wonk Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English wonkish From wonk + -ish.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more wonkish (comparative)
most wonkish (superlative)