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wonky (adj.)
"shaky, groggy, unstable," 1919, of unknown origin. Cf. German prefix
wankel-
, which has a similar sense. Or perhaps from from surviving dialectal words based on Old English
wancol
"shaky, tottering" (see
wench
).