skronky

English

Etymology

skronk +‎ -y

Adjective

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

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