"wonkish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From wonk + -ish.",
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      "form": "more wonkish",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1997, Edwin Diamond, Robert A. Silverman, White House to Your House, →ISBN, page 125:",
          "text": "According to Greer, the voting classes were ready for someone very much like the wonkish Clinton, with his devotion to \"the issues.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Zillah Eisenstein, The Audacity of Races and Genders, Zed Books, →ISBN, page 138:",
          "text": "Hillary may have been too wonkish, and Palin not wonkish enough, but they have normalized white females as political candidates for the nation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Michael Muhammad Knight, Journey to the End of Islam, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 207:",
          "text": "Being a renegade Islamo-punk had run its course, but now I answered brothers' questions in a wonkish intellectual way, ducking and weaving around the truth claims.",
          "type": "quote"
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        "Nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk."
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        "(informal) Nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk."
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          "word": "wonky"
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        {
          "word": "nerdy"
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  "word": "wonkish"
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  "etymology_text": "From wonk + -ish.",
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        {
          "ref": "1997, Edwin Diamond, Robert A. Silverman, White House to Your House, →ISBN, page 125:",
          "text": "According to Greer, the voting classes were ready for someone very much like the wonkish Clinton, with his devotion to \"the issues.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Zillah Eisenstein, The Audacity of Races and Genders, Zed Books, →ISBN, page 138:",
          "text": "Hillary may have been too wonkish, and Palin not wonkish enough, but they have normalized white females as political candidates for the nation.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2009, Michael Muhammad Knight, Journey to the End of Islam, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 207:",
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        "(informal) Nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk."
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