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What does wonkish mean?

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Adjective
  1. (informal) Nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk.
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We wanted to teach kids English, too, but we had to use years of educational research and wonkish arguments to make our case.
At its best, Unstoppable is a wonkish rallying cry for a much needed left-right convergence against the corrupt corporatist center.
Human beings are not all motivated by wonkish intellectual policy discussion.
If so, the SPD's Stephan Weil, a wonkish mayor of Hanover, would become the state's premier. Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor and boss of the CDU, worries that something similar could happen in Berlin.
If he does, he might come across as too wonkish and too aggressive to connect with voters.
Insiders have long touted Christie Vilsack as a more spirited and combative politician than her wonkish husband.

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