shonky

a. 不诚实的, 不可靠的, 质量低劣的

发音

AU

词形变化

shonkies 复数 shonkies shonkier 比较级 shonkier shonkiest shonkiest 最高级

别名

shonk

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A dishonest person.

    澳大利亚 非正式
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 英国 非正式

    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).

词源

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

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