Definition of "wonkfest" [wonkfest]

• A self-congratulatory meeting of wonks (overly studious individuals). (noun)

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• "The one substantive get of the evening, financial-regulation grande dame Elizabeth Warren, was rushed through a wonkfest that was heavy on jargon, but so lacking in background and context that it was hard to know what was going on."
• "The occasion was the opening-night dinner of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women Summit, a three-day estrogen-flavored wonkfest: Geena Davis lecturing the female execs and entrepreneurs on gender in media, Melody Barnes and Michelle Rhee holding forth on education, Trudie Styler teaching 6 a.m. yoga."
• "Elmendorf was summoned to the White House for what became known as the “Showdown of the CBO Directors,” a wonkfest for those obsessed, as so many in Washington were just then, with the details of health care."