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funk¹

(fŭngk)

A strong, usually unpleasant smell; reek.

[Probably ultimately from a northern French dialectal source such as Picard and Walloon funquer, to produce smoke, from Vulgar Latin *fūmicāre, alteration of Latin fūmigāre; see fumigate.]

funk²

(fŭngk)

1. Music

a. A hearty or earthy quality appreciated in music such as jazz or soul.

b. A type of popular music combining elements of jazz, blues, and soul and characterized by syncopated rhythm and a heavy, repetitive bassline.

2. Slang An unsophisticated quality or atmosphere of a region or locality: "The setting is country funk" (Nina Martin).

[Back-formation from funky.]

funk³

(fŭngk)

a. A state of cowardly fright; a panic.

b. A state of severe depression.

2. A cowardly, fearful person.

v. funked, funk·ing, funks

v.tr.

1. To shrink from in fright or dread.

2. To be afraid of.

v.intr.

To shrink in fright.

[Probably from obsolete Flemish fonck, disturbance, agitation, of unknown origin.]

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funk

(fʌŋk)

1. Also called: blue funk a state of nervousness, fear, or depression (esp in the phrase in a funk)

2. a coward

3. to flinch from (responsibility) through fear

4. (tr; usually passive) to make afraid

[C18: university slang, perhaps related to funk²]

ˈfunker n

funk

(fʌŋk)

slang US a strong foul odour

[C17 (in the sense: tobacco smoke): from funk (vb) to smoke (tobacco), probably of French dialect origin; compare Old French funkier to smoke, from Latin fūmigāre]

funk

(fʌŋk)

(Pop Music) informal a type of polyrhythmic Black dance music with heavy syncopation

[C20: back formation from funky¹]

Funk

(fʌŋk)

(Biography) Casimir (ˈkæzɪˌmɪə). 1884–1967, US biochemist, born in Poland: studied and named vitamins

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funk¹

(fʌŋk)

n.

1. cowering fear; state of great fright or terror.

2. a dejected mood; depression.

v.t.

3. to be afraid of.

4. to frighten.

5. to shrink from; try to shirk.

v.i.

6. to shrink or quail in fear.

[1735–45]

funk′er, n.

funk²

(fʌŋk)

n.

1. music having a funky quality.

2. the state or quality of being funky.

3. a strong smell; stench.

[1615–25]

funk

Past participle: funked
Gerund: funking

Imperative
funk
funk

Present
I funk
you funk
he/she/it funks
we funk
you funk
they funk

Preterite
I funked
you funked
he/she/it funked
we funked
you funked
they funked

Present Continuous
I am funking
you are funking
he/she/it is funking
we are funking
you are funking
they are funking

Present Perfect
I have funked
you have funked
he/she/it has funked
we have funked
you have funked
they have funked

Past Continuous
I was funking
you were funking
he/she/it was funking
we were funking
you were funking
they were funking

Past Perfect
I had funked
you had funked
he/she/it had funked
we had funked
you had funked
they had funked

Future
I will funk
you will funk
he/she/it will funk
we will funk
you will funk
they will funk

Future Perfect
I will have funked
you will have funked
he/she/it will have funked
we will have funked
you will have funked
they will have funked

Future Continuous
I will be funking
you will be funking
he/she/it will be funking
we will be funking
you will be funking
they will be funking

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been funking
you have been funking
he/she/it has been funking
we have been funking
you have been funking
they have been funking

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been funking
you will have been funking
he/she/it will have been funking
we will have been funking
you will have been funking
they will have been funking

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been funking
you had been funking
he/she/it had been funking
we had been funking
you had been funking
they had been funking

Conditional
I would funk
you would funk
he/she/it would funk
we would funk
you would funk
they would funk

Past Conditional
I would have funked
you would have funked
he/she/it would have funked
we would have funked
you would have funked
they would have funked

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funk

A form of R&B music that became popular in the 1970s and which is often said to have originated with the 1970 James Brown single Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine. Funk is characterized by primordial emotions and extended improvisations around a simple musical theme.

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Noun	1.	funk - a state of nervous depression; "he was in a funk" blue funk depression - a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
	2.	Funk - United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967) Casimir Funk
	3.	funk - an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar jazz - a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
Verb	1.	funk - draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" cringe, flinch, quail, recoil, wince, shrink, squinch move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" shrink back, retract - pull away from a source of disgust or fear

funk

verb chicken out of, dodge, recoil from, take fright, flinch from, duck out of (informal), turn tail (informal) When the time came I funked it.

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funk

noun

1. Ignoble lack of courage:

chickenheartedness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint-heartedness, pusillanimity, unmanliness.

Slang: gutlessness, yellowness, yellow streak.

2. Great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger:

affright, alarm, apprehension, dread, fear, fearfulness, fright, horror, panic, terror, trepidation.

Slang: cold feet.

Idiom: fear and trembling.

3. A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits:

blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, gloom, glumness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mope (used in plural), mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness.

4. An ignoble, uncourageous person:

coward, craven, dastard, poltroon.

Slang: chicken, yellow-belly.

Translations

ذُعْريَخاف، يَجْبُن، يَخْشى

bát sepanikastrachvyhýbat se

angstluske uden ompanikskræk

Bammel kneifen vor

dégonfler faiblesse lâcheté peureux trouille

ofsahræîsla, skelfingòora ekki, draga sig í hlé

avere una terribile fifa evitare fifa funk paura

pabūgtipanika

bailesizvairītiesšausmas

følelse av å være helt på bånn nede ikke tore vise seg

hrozne sa báťplné nohavice

korkukorkup kaçmak

却懦害怕恐惧惊惶逃避

funk

[fʌŋk]

A. N

1. (= fear) to be in a (blue) funk → estar muerto de miedo

2. (Mus) → funk m

B. VT to funk it → rajarse
to funk doing something → dejar de hacer algo por miedo

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funk

[ˈfʌŋk]

(= music) → funk m

funk

(esp Brit inf: = fear) → Schiss m (inf), → Bammel m (inf); to be in a (blue) funk → (vor Angst) die Hosen voll haben (inf), → mächtig or ganz schön Schiss or Bammel haben (inf); to put somebody in a (blue) funk → jdm mächtig Bammel einjagen (inf)

(Mus) → Funk m

vt → kneifen vor (+dat) (inf); he funked it → er hat (davor) gekniffen (inf)

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funk

[fʌŋk]

1. n (old) to be in a (blue) funk (fam) → avere una gran fifa

2. vt (old) → evitare (per paura)

funk

(faŋk) noun

(a state of) fear. He was in a funk over his exam.

verb

not to do (something) because one is afraid. She funked the appointment.

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Ties of common funk are the things that bind us together; and the sooner you new nations realize it the better.

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If it does, I shall be, as Harold says, in a dreadful funk.

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I've been awfully lucky, and all because that fellow Cathcart turned out such a funk and a bounder.

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Lop-Ear was plainly in a funk, and yet his conduct in remaining by me, in spite of his fear, I take as a foreshadowing of the altruism and comradeship that have helped make man the mightiest of the animals.

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I should hate like the devil to go into a funk before the devils at the last moment."

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This was a most necessary precaution, for the blacks were in a funk, and a whale-boat left lying on the beach in the evening meant a loss of twenty blacks by morning.

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They were in a blue funk, and the sight of the naked white warrior stepping silently out of the jungle through which they had just passed had been sufficient shock to let loose in action all the pent nerve energy of Malbihn, who had been the first to see the strange apparition.

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Juag had been terror-stricken when he had learned that I intended crossing the ocean, and when we passed out of sight of land be was in a blue funk. He said that he had never heard of such a thing before in his life, and that always he had understood that those who ventured far from land never returned; for how could they find their way when they could see no land to steer for?

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The Chinese could see the funk he was in as well as I could, and their insolence became insufferable.

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"You funk the police station then?" said Raskolnikov jeeringly.

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If I was going to be flogged next minute, I should be in a blue funk, but I couldn't help laughing at it for the life of me."

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I should have jeered at myself ever afterwards: "So you funked it, you funked it, you funked the real thing!" On the contrary, I passionately longed to show all that "rabble" that I was by no means such a spiritless creature as I seemed to myself.

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