janky

English edit

From junky.

janky (comparative jankier, superlative jankiest)

(slang, informal) Of poor quality.
It's barely holding together, it's so janky.
(slang) Strange, odd.
- 2006, Sarah Ellis, Odd Man Out, Toronto: Groundwood Books, →ISBN, page 97:
  “And look, they don't even call them cigarettes. They call them fun tubes.” “Well, I guess,” said Hillary. “Talk about a janky role model. Candy cigarettes.”
- 2014 August 7, Smokin', Drinkin', and Chillin' (Black Jesus), episode 1, spoken by Maggie (Kali Hawk):
  We're gonna do some janky shit. When you're doin' janky shit, you wear a mask.
- 2016 September, “Earth Defense Force”, in Play, number 273, →ISSN, page 64:
  If you love B-movies, crazy sci-fi and intense, janky-as-all-hell videogames, you’ve come to the right place.

OED 2004
Dalzell and Victor, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, →ISBN, p. 1252; earliest usage 1999.
A Way with Words

janky (comparative jankier, superlative jankiest)

(computing, colloquial) Unresponsive (of a software application’s user interface), sluggish.
- 2016, Adam Stroud, Android Database Best Practices‎^[1], Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN:
  While the asynchronous HTTP call is running on a background thread (preventing a janky UI, or ANRs), the user can navigate away from the activity after the request has been sent but before the response has been received by the device.