Definitions for wonk

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Spelling: [wongk]
IPA: /wɒŋk/

Wonk is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in wonk (know).

Definitions for wonk

noun

  1. a student who spends much time studying and has little or no social life; grind.
  2. a stupid, boring, or unattractive person.
  3. a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner:

Origin of wonk

1960-65, Americanism; of expressive orig.; nautical slang wonk “a midshipman,” Australian slang: “white person, homosexual” are probably independent formations

Examples for wonk

He saw a problem, and—as a self-proclaimed “wonk”—immediately moved to solve it.

He hired a disaffected ex-Democratic wonk as his top social-policy guy.

The oldest of the Emanuels doesn't come up light on the wonk scale either, holding both an M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard.

The ACA and every wonk assumes rational people who can make good financial decisions.

But before long, Morgan was ready to get off the wonk and back to the Oval Office.

Heather Ryan is a graduate of Drake University and wonk living in the heart of presidential political bliss in Iowa.

At the wonk Room, meanwhile, a handy chart lays out what things will look like with and without reform.

And whoever replaces Summers will probably be one of his deputies and therefore a wonk.

Though he has worked closely with celebrities like Clooney, Pressman is a wonk with little patience for Hollywood theatrics.

The Treasury secretary is fundamentally a wonk who is in a position for which he lacks the forensic depth and political maturity.

Word Value for wonk
Scrable

0

Words with friends

12

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