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shonky

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Is shonky a Scrabble word?

Yes, shonky is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 16 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) No
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends No

What is the meaning of shonky?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal) Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.Examples: "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)."; "The committee heard much evidence that this is a farce, yet this government have continued to try to pretend that their forecast, based on the shonkiest of assumptions—their model, with the shonkiest of assumptions—is really what is going to happen."; "He might be a dole-bludger, a gambler and have the shonkiest tattoo in the world on his arm, but he'll agree to almost anything."AustraliaNew-ZealandUKinformal

noun (English)

1. (Australia, informal) A dishonest person.Examples: "It is clear from Mr Boyd's evidence that the Union is hoping as a result of its application to obtain an award provision which would control the practices of the "crooks and shonkies in the industry"."; "Mr BILLSON—and they are being called shonkies and all sorts of things by the Labor Party[…]."; "I could hear the tenants talking above me and they were laughing about how they had ripped of the public transport system. I made up my mind that as they were obvious shonkies, I wouldn't give any leeway and, if they didn't pay on the spot, I would disconnect supply."Australiainformal

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "shonky"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "shonky"?

Scrabble
16 points
S1
H4
O1
N1
K5
Y4
Words With Friends
15 points
S1
H3
O1
N2
K5
Y4

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