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Wonk   /wɑnk/   Listen
Wonk

noun
1.
An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious.  Synonyms: dweeb, grind, nerd, swot.






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"Wonk" Quotes from Famous Books



... stumbling toward the farther window, while Flounce the terrier and a wonk puppy ran nipping at his heels. "Come, look at them! ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout

... Shorty, he sits up and lays a hand to his head, and same time he sees that bull come tarin' for him. Up he jumps. And jest then the bull come to the end of the line and wonk!—down he goes, head over heels, and hits the sand with a bang that must of jostled his liver some, ...
— The Night Horseman • Max Brand

... "devil-worshipers," for whom our early writers have usually nothing but bad words. They have been destroyed instead of converted; but his (so entitled) Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe {338} Up-Biblum God naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament—the first Bible printed in America—remains a monument of missionary zeal and a work of great value to students of ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers



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