What does zonky mean?
Zonky means (slang) Very fatigued; zonked..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(slang) Very fatigued; zonked..
And I feel kind of zonky this morning. Maybe I needed the sleep.
She was much better before the medicine made her all zonky.
He knows all the stuff that Arthur Schlesinger Jr., knows, keeps picking up brand new, ultra-contemporary stuff that nobody else knows, and arrives at zonky conclusions couched in scholarly terms.
[…] she doesn’t have the precision of a Jean Arthur, yet she has some of that rueful, fluffy-in-the-head charm of someone whose brains are addled by her sexual impulses, and she adds the blur in the expression and those tremulous, zonky eyes.
“I tried the State Employment Office and all the guy there does is show you unemployment figures for the county and shakes his head. Makes you feel zonky.”
Gradually Simon’s powers of movement returned. He felt them coming back. It was a growing warmth, an inner blooming. He was able to say, “Guess I went a little zonky back there, huh?”
Use zonky when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Zonky means (slang) Very fatigued; zonked..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
And I feel kind of zonky this morning. Maybe I needed the sleep.
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