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Funky   /fˈəŋki/   Listen
Funky

adjective
1.
Offensively malodorous.  Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking.  "The kitchen smelled really funky"
2.
(of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues.  Synonym: low-down.
3.
Stylish and modern in an unconventional way.  "We did it all in black and white in a very funky sixties style"
4.
In a state of cowardly fright.





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"Funky" Quotes from Famous Books



... was much more interesting than alarming. Fear is seated in the imagination, I think, and vanishes once the mind can assert itself. One feels very funky in the cold nights when nothing is happening: but if one has to handle men under fire, one is braced up and one's attention is occupied. I expect rifle fire is much more trying: but the fact that shell-fire is more or less unaimed at one individually, and also the warning swish, gives ...
— Letters from Mesopotamia • Robert Palmer


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