Sentence:  “I tried the State Employment Office and all the guy there does is show you unemployment figures for the county and shakes his head. Makes you feel <WSD>zonky</WSD>.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Weird, odd, eccentric.<ref>John Ayto, "The Oxford Dictionary of Slang", Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 427,[https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary00john]</ref>