"wonk" is a real word in English that is used to describe a person who is a very hardworking student or an expert in a particular field.
For example, "My friend is such a wonk; he spends every waking hour studying and researching!".
Of what songs they would play if it was OK to clear the dancefloor, and put a donk on it rather than a wonk.
Only really John Micklethwait, US editor of debate sponsors The Economist; the others, Mark Leonard (a Blairite policy wonk), ex-deputy Labour leader Roy Hattersley and writer Christopher Hitchens are soon frying other fish.
I have built a confirmation bias so strongly into my own fabric that it's hard to imagine a fact that could wonk me.
But like Labour's welfare wonk, Frank Field, who thinks the shift long overdue, they will believe it all when it actually happens.
Tonight it's Paul vs Joe on the vice-presidential debate stage: will the young wonk make grandpa look slow, or will grandpa teach the young punk a lesson or two about messing with Medicare?
Until now she's been a policy wonk, consultant and strategist.
In his new book, "The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform—Why We Need It and What It Will Take", Bruce Bartlett, an erstwhile Republican wonk, comes out in favour of a VAT.
Nobody was listening, argued others: in an age of snap judgments, this baby-faced, panda-eyed policy wonk is too "weird" to earn a public hearing.All true, perhaps.
Stewart Wood, the Labour leader's top wonk, wrote one of its chapters.
And Mr Edwards, who has made a point of turning himself into a policy wonk, can be expected to join in the pulverising.If policies were all, Mrs Clinton could smother the Obama challenge under a pile of policy papers.
The senator is a policy wonk with the political skills, regularly applied across party lines, to put ideas into practice.
