different between wontish vs wonkish

English

From wont (“custom, habit”) +? -ish.

wontish (comparative more wontish, superlative most wontish)

Of or suggestive of a wont; customary; usual; habitual.
- 1999, Gilbert Sorrentino, Crystal Vision:
  He garbs himself in raiments and costumes that make him appear to the naked eyes to be somebody else. The press, in its wontish way, goes wild.

wonk +? -ish

wonkish (comparative more wonkish, superlative most wonkish)

(informal) Nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk.
- 2009, Zillah Eisenstein, The Audacity of Races and Genders, Zed Books (?ISBN), page 138:
  Hillary may have been too wonkish, and Palin not wonkish enough, but they have normalized white females as political candidates for the nation.
- 2009, Michael Muhammad Knight, Journey to the End of Islam, Soft Skull Press (?ISBN), page 207:
  Being a renegade Islamo-punk had run its course, but now I answered brothers' questions in a wonkish intellectual way, ducking and weaving around the truth claims.

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