That is so janky!

Today’s word of the day, which totally emerged organically from our rehearsal process today, is the word janky.

You might not be familiar with the word janky, but it has it’s uses are diverse and interesting. Janky may refer to anything that is just not quite up to par. Something that sucks, something that is poorly constructued, something that is stupid, annoying, not working, bad. In other words, it is an all purpose word for things that are just not great. (According to this website http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/janky/, the word janky has been around since 1993, shit I feel really not cool for just discovering it now!) Apparently, there is also a movie starring Ice Cube and Young Jeezy called Janky Promoters.

Examples:
My Dad drives the car of his youth from the 70s or something. It is one janky ride.
This motel room is totally janky right now. Just look at that bed!
This coffee tastes mighty janky, what did you put in it?
That creepy old man with the Justin Beiber tshirt just hit me, I am so janked out right now, man.
Lindsay Lohan is janky.
How dare you sleep on me with that hoe! You are the jankiest guyI have ever met!
Smoking has made my lungs all janky.
Dirty Dancing is NOT janky.

Also… some photo images that come up for janky:

 

Overall I’d say it’s a pretty groundbreaking word.