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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



... after a moment breathed. "You've had to vacate the house—that was inevitable. But at least here he doesn't funk." ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James
... said the captain. "Steam's up, and I've ordered lunch on board, as I thought you'd want that anyway. I'll tell Funk, the second mate, to run out into the Solent, and then you can give your own orders. What time will you ...
— His Lordship's Leopard - A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts • David Dwight Wells
... the Spanish Inquisition being called healthy for anybody taking part in it. Still, religion flourishes. But your old-fashioned, unscientific, gilt, ginger-bread Heaven blew up ten years ago—went out. My Heaven's just coming in. It's new. Dr. Funk and a lot of the clergymen are in already. You'd better get used to it, Batholommey, and get in line and ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm • David Belasco
... reflected that she had grounds for her sagacity. His next thought plunged him into contempt for Kit Ines, on account of the fellow's lapses to sottishness. But there would be no contempt of Kit Ines in a tussle with him. Nor could one funk the tussle and play cur, if Kit's engaged young woman were looking on. We get to our courage or the show of it ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... will prove unfaithful. If he is compelled to go, the usual course is to write to his wife and tell her that she is free to look out for another husband. Having made up his mind that he will die, I have no doubt that he often dies through sheer funk." (R. Logan JACK, Back Blocks ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa


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