shonky

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dishonest person. Australia,informal
    — It is clear from Mr Boyd's evidence that the Union is hoping as a result of its application to obtain an award provision which would control the practices of the "crooks and shonkies in the industry".
形容词 adj.
  1. Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent. Australia,New-Zealand,UK,informal
    — 1986, Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, ANZJS: The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Sociology, Volume 22, page 475, The argument gets even shonkier when they claim that the boundary between clerical and administrative work is difficult to define anyway, and that routinisation and fragmentation have affected lower and middle management too (pp. 95–6).

词形变化

shonkier comparative shonkiest superlative shonkies plural shonk alternative

词源

词源 1
From 1970s; possibly from dialectal English shonk (“smart”).
词源 2
From 1970s; possibly from dialectal English shonk (“smart”).
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