skronky

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English

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Etymology

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From skronk +‎ -y.

Adjective

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skronky (comparative more skronky, superlative most skronky)

  1. (US, music, slang) Raw and discordant, especially of an electric guitar.
    • 2009 January 23, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
      MODESELEKTOR (Saturday) This duo, from Berlin, plays skronky, occasionally disconcerting electronic music, and has benefited enormously from the copious—and copiously heeded—praise of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke.
    • 2019, Stephanie Burt, Don't Read Poetry:
      This is the kind of difficulty that has a kinship with skronky jazz, and avant-garde noise, and some hip-hop, and lots of punk rock.

Further reading

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  • The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang, 2006, page 1678