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Funky

adjective

Offensively malodorous. Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking. "The kitchen smelled really funky"

(of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues. Synonym: low-down.

Stylish and modern in an unconventional way. "We did it all in black and white in a very funky sixties style"

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

Words linked to "Funky" : jazz, malodourous, stinky, unconventional, ill-smelling, cowardly, unpleasant-smelling, fearful, emotional, funk, malodorous