"overly studious person," 1962, earlier "effeminate male" (1954), American English student slang. Perhaps a shortening of British slang wonky "shaky, unreliable," or a variant of British slang wanker "masturbator." It seemed to rise into currency as a synonym for nerd late 1980s from Ivy League slang and was widely popularized 1993 during the presidency of Bill Clinton. Tom Wolfe (1988) described it as "an Eastern prep-school term referring to all those who do not have the 'honk' voice, i.e., all who are non-aristocratic."
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. the President's chief economic policy wonk
總統(tǒng)的首席經(jīng)濟(jì)問(wèn)題策士
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. But a new breed of policy wonk is having second thoughts.