zonkyhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zonky_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezonky, adj.
First published 1986; not fully revised

zonkyadjective (& noun)

slang.
  1. 1972–
    Odd, weird, ‘freaky’. Hence as n., a person in this state.
    1. 1972
      ‘Wow, is this zonky?’ breathed an admiring observer softly, as she gazed incredulously at the newly opened, all-cardboard room.
      Daily Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia) 26 April 22/5
    2. 1975
      Unlike the honkey-tonk zonkies who used to hang out at his..workshop, shooting up or having sex in public view... Warhol has rarely, personally, done anything scandalous.
      Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 October 34/1
    3. 1977
      That combination of the new and old seems to have escaped most journalists except—in one of his zonky moments of insight—Hunter Thompson.
      New York Review of Books 28 April 12/3
    4. 1979
      All the guy there does is..shakes his head. Makes you feel zonky..twittery.
      B. Malamud, Dubin's Lives i. 22
    5. 1980
      His book is really a study in ideas—or to coin an appropriately zonkey term—weirdology.
      Times 6 November 12/6

zonky, adj. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.

zonky, adj. was last modified in December 2024.