wonk
wonk
- 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.