_wonky_ = "shady"?

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Odd; unusual; peculiar; 'weird.'"

JL

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> This just in:
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> http://goo.gl/IRHeZ
> > Game 5 is Friday night in Pittsburgh, and the Pens will get Craig
> > Adams and James Neal back from suspensions incurred in Sunday's wonky
> > Game 3.
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> I could sit here with a dictionary for a week and not figure out what
> "wonky" means here. "Inexplicable"? "One only a true fan could love"? I
> have no idea.
>
> For the record--Game 3 was won by Philadelphia Flyers. If featured a
> large number of penalties, including some of the dirty varyiety, that
> merited three Pittsburgh suspensions by the league. Even given this
> information, I'm not sure how it was "wonky". But one thing it wasn't is
> "shady".
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>     VS-)
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> On 4/19/2012 8:01 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> > ...
> > As for "wonky", I take it as a word being used by a person who is
> > dissatisfied by something they don't understand well enough to explain to
> > someone else.
> >
> > DanG
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