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• n  an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

• Norman Ornstein is a wonk, a wonk's wonk, maybe the wonk di tutti wonks.
• He's the recession's ascendant wonk and most improbable celebrity, as likely to pop up in the newspaper or on television as behind Nancy Pelosi during a press conference sort .
• Josh Marshall makes a very good point about the conflict between Hillary Clinton's inner policy wonk and her outer slick-pol.

• swot
• grind
• nerd
• dweeb

News & Articles

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• Jeb Bush highlights immigration battle of GOP establishment vs newcomers
  WASHINGTON — Former Govs. Haley Barbour and Jeb Bush, the folksy pol from Mississippi and the policy wonk from Florida, sat next to each other Thursday pitching immigration reform as vital for the economic future of an aging country.
  June 14, 2013 - St. Petersburg Times Blogs
• High-profile spat shows how much at stake in education: Editorial
  The details of the online spat between New York University education professor Diane Ravitch and Parent Revolution executive director Ben Austin aren't very interesting to anyone except an education wonk.
  June 13, 2013 - Los Angeles Daily News

Quotes

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• Darrell Hammond in FOXNews
  We're distorting a piece of temporary perception of a changing piece of information,says Hammond. "I kind of think of myself as a clown who wears funny noses. I don't think that I'm a policy wonk or a legislator."
• Deval Patrick in Seattle Times
  He has a broader range of life experience, which is, I think, enormously important because we don't want just a chief policy wonk,Patrick said.
• Jack Kingston in Rome News Tribune
  Eric is a policy wonk,Kingston said. "He really knows budgets. He can tell you what's in paragraph B, page 3,612."