1. shonky - Noun
2. shonky - Adjective
shonky (comparative shonkier, superlative shonkiest)
(Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal) Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.
shonky (plural shonkies)
(Australia) A dishonest person.
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine. Mark Haddon