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Funk   /fəŋk/   Listen
noun
Funk  n.  
1.
An offensive smell; a stench. (Low)
2.
One who funks; a shirk; a coward. (Colloq.)
3.
A state of fear.
4.
A mildly depressed state of mind; often used in the phrase blue funk.


Funk  n.  An earthy, seemingly unsophisticated style of jazz music having elements of black American blues and gospel.


Funking, Funk  n.  A shrinking back through fear. (Colloq.) "The horrid panic, or funk (as the men of Eton call it)."


verb
Funk  v. t.  
1.
To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. (Obs.)
2.
To funk at; to flinch at; to shrink from (a thing or person); as, to funk a task. (Colloq.)
3.
To frighten; to cause to flinch. (Colloq.)


Funk  v. i.  
1.
To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
2.
To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice. (Colloq.)
To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. (Colloq.) "To funk right out o' political strife."





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"Funk" Quotes from Famous Books



... you would. I'd like to find out whether she would believe you. I have tried to tell her myself, but the honest truth is, I funk it." ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine
... said I'd never promised a dog collar or anything like one, she went mad as a tiger cat and took revenge by ringing up the police with a beast of a story that I'd kidnapped her. She got it out before I could make her stop, and for just a minute I was in a blue funk. New York's rampagin' so just now on the subject of kidnappers. But I had wit enough to chuck her into the street and run to the club for help. I thought of Freddy Fortescue (by the way, I must get him to stand by me with a ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... hesitation, he said something further, that I could not catch; but there seemed a lot of funk in ...
— The Ghost Pirates • William Hope Hodgson
... which seemed to say, "This is just the kind of dirty trick life always plays on me," came back into his eyes for an instant, and he tried to grin. But the attempt was a grimace of terror. He cowered back down at their feet, his courage swamped in funk. ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
... got blown right back into our wire and put me in a fearful funk. To-day I had my usual breakfast at 10-0 in bed, washed, shaved, and then went along to see "A" Company Commander to arrange about firing. On the way to his headquarters I saw a captain of the R.H.A., and found out he had come to be in command ...
— Letters from France • Isaac Alexander Mack


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