Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - wonk
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Wonk
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1.
~ n AmE informal someone who works hard and is very serious (policy wonks surrounding the President) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1954, popularized 1993 during Clinton administration in U.S.; perhaps a shortening of Brit. slang wonky "shaky, unreliable," from dialectal words based on O.E. wancol "shaky, tottering." Or perhaps a variant of Brit. slang wanker "masturbator." It was earlier British naval slang for "midshipman." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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