shonky
adjEtymology
From 1970s; possibly from dialectal English shonk (“smart”).
Definitions
Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable
Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.
- He might be a dole-bludger, a gambler and have the shonkiest tattoo in the world on his arm, but he'll agree to almost anything.
A dishonest person.
- It is clear from Mr Boyd's evidence that the Union is hoping as a result of its application to obtain an award provision which would control the practices of the "crooks and shonkies in the industry".
- Mr BILLSON—and they are being called shonkies and all sorts of things by the Labor Party[…].
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA