zonky

Adjective

zonky (comparative more zonky, superlative most zonky)

1. (slang) Very fatigued; zonked.
   • And I feel kind of zonky this morning. Maybe I needed the sleep.2005, Susan K. Lorenz, Choose a Miracle, page 93
   • She was much better before the medicine made her all zonky.2011, P. J. Hoge, Z: Fourth in the Prairie Preacher Series, page 151
2. (slang) Weird, odd, eccentric.
   • 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.1965 June 27, Kurt Vonnegut, “Infarcted! Tabescent!”, in The New York Times Book Review, →ISSN, page 4
   • […] 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.1977, Pauline Kael, “Drip-Dry Comedy”, in When the Lights Go Down, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1980, page 361