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wonkish

adj

Etymology

From wonk + -ish.

Definitions

  1. Nerdy

    Nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk.

    • 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.

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