Citations:wonker

• 2012 August 15, Carly Alexander, The Eggnog Chronicles, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:

  Instead, I get saddled with this wonker of a last name, which puts me on the perennial husband hunt for something better. Randy's last name is Walker. Could the man be more perfectly suited to me? Emma Walker.

or "something big"? cf. adj. sense further below:

• 2020 March 24, Willow Fae von Wicken, Surf Hellions: Book 2 Surf Series, Surf Sinners is Book 1, Dymond Publishing, →ISBN:

  “Partaking in brunch at the café of course.” Irwin said, dusting off his Dockers. It wasn't a surprise. Come to think of it, they were always eating. “There was like a big bodacious bang! What a wonker!” Crusher stood at least six foot 

• 2006 October 1, Frances Lynn, Crushed, Eiworth Publishing, →ISBN, page 122:

  'Johnny Conker's a wonker. 'Ave you got somefink else?' Poppy whined. Door restrained from biffing her on the head. She went into her bedroom, re-emerging a few minutes later, carrying a pillow. By this time, Eddie and The Lumps had 

• 1999 October 13, Michael Z. Lewin, Family Planning: A Lunghi Family Mystery, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 86:

  “So you won't mind if I call you a wonker?” “Not if you do it carefully.” “So,” Ixy said, “what wonk Varieties do you lay claim to beside computers and juggling?” “Well, I'm a detective wonk.” “What does that mean?

• 2010, John Francis King, Platform Free, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 46:

  Wonker. What? You can't hear for facts, cool guy. But you don't listen. Wonker. Policy wonker. ' current level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere 430 ppm CO2 e.' Sexy. Science is science. Fact is fact. Sola in a bikini is Sola in a 

• 2011 October 1, Mark Martin, I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet, Verso Books, →ISBN:

  What Whitehall wonker came up with that? Chap seriously needs his head removing. I mean, yes, it's ten percent more carbon-efficient than going ahead with 2040, as previously planned. And, yes, it gives the authorities a good excuse to 

• 2012 October 15, Pete May, The Joy of Essex: Travels Through God's Own County, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:

  Though Miliband rather perpetuated his policy wonker image by not being able to tell Lucy Manning from ITV News who his favourite TOWIE character was: 'I must confess I'm not as avid a watcher as I should be ... But what I say is, 

• 2008, New Statesman:

  Competition is so intense, mumbled a snout, that a policy wonker eager to cajole the shadow cabinet matchbox to speak on the fringe was informed that these days Duncan expects a guaranteed minimum crowd of 400.

• 2001, Jonathan Gash, A Rag, a Bone, and a Hank of Hair, Penguin Group, →ISBN:

  Dosh said they were delivered by a wonker called Chev, who's somewhere in Edinburgh. 'A wonker is a driver who ships small antiques, up to about chair size, anywhere in the kingdom, door to door. Very reliable, wonkers are 

• 2005 07, R. Grubb, Mordray's Whale, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 135:

  The girl just busted your ass, and you're getting a stiff wonker. Stifling an urge for another view of her tits, he forced himself to turn around to look at Louis. No way would he allow her to catch him doing the ogle thing. But whew!

• 2011 June 28, Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

  She replied he's probably an old lech who reflexively whips out his wonker for an airing every time a woman passes by. He's not that old, I chimed in, and he was never a lech. Drop this, Nancy warned. Whatever it was you had together, 

• 2014 November 15, Carly Laine, When Size Matters, Harlequin, →ISBN:

  The thought sent a warm buzz through my body. “Grandma Frank?” I needed to know something else. Except, I didn't need to ask. “A man by the restrooms asked her for directions. While he was stoking his wonker.” “What?

• 2016 August 1, Bill Reed, Shorts: The Short and One-Act Plays of Bill Reed, Reed Independent, →ISBN:

  ... could hear them all sniggering, bloody old Bill's got his hooks into a bit of a boongy bint; fate worse than death with a wilted wonker. And if you listened right you could hear my Tru crying out inside, 'He's me last man, ever, 

• 2007 May 29, Tim Scott, Outrageous Fortune: A Novel, Spectra, →ISBN, page 384:

  "Wonker? It's like water. But not as good." "Okay. No, thanks." I had no idea what she was talking about, but this wasn't the time to ask. The room had no windows, but one of the walls was glazed and looked into a small viewing room.

• 2008 July 29, Tim Scott, Love in the Time of Fridges: A Novel, Spectra, →ISBN:

  “What about some wonker?” Her hair was swooshed back with a hair band that had the effect of making her face look constantly surprised. “No, just the coffee and pastry is great. That'll do me.” “You're sure about the wonker?

• 2006 August 1, Bill Klein, Minnesconsin, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 165:

  Oily Dennis pocketed the money, fished a trophy size wonker out of his left nostril, rolled it in a ball, and flung it across the lobby. It landed in a dish of unwrapped breath mints. He scratched his various nether regions and grunted 

• 2014 November 4, Randall Platt, Incommunicado, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

  Wonk wonk wonk. There, on the floor, is the wonker. A dog's tail—the tip tap-tap-tapping. I recognize that long, pointy tail, which is attached to Mr. Kaye's bloodhound. “Hero! What are you doing here, boy?” I love dogs, and Hero and me 

• 2016 November 1, Allison Leigh, Karen Templeton, Joanna Sims, Harlequin Special Edition November 2016 Box Set 1 of 2: An Anthology, Harlequin, →ISBN:

  At the rate they were adding kids to the family, though, one of those wonker vans was looking good for the near future. Straightening, Mom swung her gaze to Josh's. “Although Gus said there's already a dozen casseroles and such in the 

• 2016 November 1, Karen Templeton, The Rancher's Expectant Christmas, Harlequin, →ISBN:

  At the rate they were adding kids to the family, though, one of those wonker vans was looking good for the near future. Straightening, Mom swung her gaze to Josh's. “Although Gus said there's already a dozen casseroles and such in the 

• (Can we date this quote?), Robert G. English, Poetry In Print Volume Two, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

  I'll have some duck soup The pigeons' soon all flew the coop The duck soup tasted poopy but quacky... so I added more saltine cracker A pigeon flew up behind me and hit me on my wonker Didn't finish the duck soup... because the whack on 

• 2014 December 2, Jane K. Cleland, Blood Rubies: A Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 188:

  Which means Stefan told a wonker. The police are trying to figure out why. That's why I'm calling you. I know you've been working with the police. Any ideas?” “He did something en route he doesn't want to talk about.” “Yeah, but what?

or "big"?

• 2007 February 1, Karen Templeton, The Prodigal Valentine, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 159:

  And yeah, that the kid shared her tastes or Dana and C.J. would be footing wonker therapy bills down the road, but hey—not her problem. “So. Is that it?” Mercy asked. “Actually...” Dana threaded an arm through hers and led her back out 

• 2021 April 27, Melissa Hope, Sea of Kings, North Star Editions, Inc., →ISBN:

  “As embarrassing as that wonker zit on your face?” Noa's lips pursed into a thin line. He snatched the letter protruding from Dagan's pocket and smacked it over his brother's head. “You shouldn't have stolen this from Father.

short for catty-wonker?:

• 2010 November 1, Karen Templeton, What a Man's Gotta Do, Silhouette, →ISBN:

  Only to be almost instantly annihilated as a pickup skidded, spun one hundred and eighty degrees and rammed its wonker back end into Mala's left front bumper, sending the puny little car flying off the road and into the trunk of some 

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• 2009 May 12, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love, Whispered Lies, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 304:

  “Before you go wonker, not my fault.” Rae stood and looked at Korbin, who got up from where he'd been sitting in a side chair. Korbin sauntered toward the door with one of those can't-help-you-with-this-one looks.

• 2009 10, Bill W. King, No Really My Name Is Brother Billy Bob Bohannon, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 155:

  Some folk called it A-skew, as in something that is hanging up on the wall all wonker-sided. There's you one example of the way we talk in the southlands. Others call it Ask-ew, as in let me ask you a question. Let me Ask-ew a question.

• 2013 06, Faye L. Gardner, Me and Us: Special Memories of a North Carolina Country Girl, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 35:

  Or “cattysnatchways.” And one more, “catty wampus,” is used when something is not straight. I never understood why “catty” was part of her way of viewing “not square.” If something needed straightening up a bit, it was “wonker-sided.”

• (Can we date this quote?), Colleen Gleason, Night Resurrected, Oliver-Heber books:

  It was just easing into twilight and one of the headlights on the Humvee was catty-wonker, offering little help in the way of illumination, while the other was hardly more than a glow. “Another mile farther and we can stop,” Ian said.

• 2016 November 23, Colleen Gleason, Beyond the Night: The Heroes of New Vegas, Book 1: Paranormal Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Romance Adventure Series, AVID PRESS, →ISBN:

  They were still there. All three of them, woven to fit snugly, and each with twelve stones—representing the months of her captivity. Three years. She lined them up, inching them so they were stone to stone instead of catty-wonker.

• 2021 April 9, Colleen Gleason, Beyond the Night, Oliver-Heber books:

  She lined them up, inching them so they were stone to stone instead of catty-wonker. It was a sort of therapy, a meditation. A way to organize and steady her thoughts when they became dark. A reminder of how far she'd come from the days 

• 2002 September 1, Thomas E. Posey, The Son Rises in Texas, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 73:

  Dobie's first mistake, well, it was actually his only mistake, was that he pulled up to the curb to use the outside phone, and sort of had his car kind of wonker-jawed, or caddy cornered to the curb. Roughly, at about the same time he 

• 2012 June 19, Erica Sehyun Song, The Pax Valley, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 68:

  “Well, yelling is probably better than being all lovey-dovey when you're supposed to be all bonker-wonker,”i reasoned. “Lovey-dovey and bonker-wonker—what inspired you to invent those words? ooh, let me guess, the dictionary,” he teased