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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From junky.
Adjective
janky (comparative jankier, superlative jankiest)
- (slang, informal) Of poor quality.
It's barely holding together, it's so janky.
- (slang) Strange, odd.
2006, Sarah Ellis, Odd Man Out, Toronto: Groundwood Books, →ISBN, page 97:“And look, they don't even call them cigarettes. They call them fun tubes.” “Well, I guess,” said Hillary. “Talk about a janky role model. Candy cigarettes.”
2014 August 7, Smokin', Drinkin', and Chillin' (Black Jesus), episode 1, spoken by Maggie (Kali Hawk):We're gonna do some janky shit. When you're doin' janky shit, you wear a mask.
2016 September, “Earth Defense Force”, in Play, number 273, →ISSN, page 64:If you love B-movies, crazy sci-fi and intense, janky-as-all-hell videogames, you’ve come to the right place.
References
- OED 2004
- Dalzell and Victor, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, →ISBN, p. 1252; earliest usage 1999.
- A Way with Words
Etymology 2
Adjective
janky (comparative jankier, superlative jankiest)
- (computing, colloquial) Unresponsive (of a software application’s user interface), sluggish.
2016, Adam Stroud, Android Database Best Practices, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN:While the asynchronous HTTP call is running on a background thread (preventing a janky UI, or ANRs), the user can navigate away from the activity after the request has been sent but before the response has been received by the device.