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noun

cowering fear; country of keen fearfulness or terror.

a dejected mood: He's been in a funk ever since she walked out on him.

verb (used with object)

to be agape of.

to frighten.

to shrink from; try to shirk.

verb (used without object)

to compress or quail in fright.

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Origin of funk

¹

1735–45; mayhap <early Dutch dialect fonck

OTHER WORDS FROM funk

funker, substantive

Words nearby funk

funiculitis, funiculopexy, funiculus, funiform, funis, funk, funked, funk pigsty, funkia, funkster, funky

Other definitions for funk (2 of three)

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noun

music having a funky quality.

the state or quality of being funky.

a potent odour; stench.

Origin of funk

ⁱⁱ

1615–25; perhaps <North French dialect funquier, funquer give off smoke, Old North French fungier<Vulgar Latin fūmicāre, amending of Latin fūmigāre;see fumigate

Other definitions for funk (3 of 3)

Funk

[ foongk, fuhngk ]

/ fʊŋk, fʌŋk /

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noun

Cas·i·mir [kaz-uh-meer], /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/, 1884–1967, U.S. biochemist, born in Poland: discovered thiamine, the first vitamin isolated.

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Words related to funk

How to use funk in a sentence

• In some ways, this 2020 flavor, as chaotic as it has become because of the pandemic, has served as an attention-grabbing effort for Funk.

• Expect to hear vintage funk, deep business firm, downtempo and Baltimore club bangers — all adding upwardly to the perfect weekend soundtrack, whether you're on a makeshift dance floor on Friday nighttime or just chilling on your sofa on Wednesday evening.

• A saison might showcase a brettanomyces yeast that carries the funk of a barnyard.

• Three yard miles away, news of the project's approval sent Pecker Gow, a cattle rancher from southern Oregon, into a lasting funk.

• The slinky funk song playing in my caput screeched to a halt.

• But along with the cartoon funk is an all-as well-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

• The funk legend treats unsuspecting concertgoers to an impromptu show.

• The simultaneously upbeat and sentimental ode to friendship is equal parts funk, trance, pop, and R&B.

• Merely fifty-fifty after the funk of the Bush years dispersed, we were left with a deeper truth.

• The soul-funk innovator had some complex and (quite frankly) baroque political views.

• Little fourth dimension was lost in bringing the doctors—Anderson, of the man-of-war, and his friend Dr. Funk.

• While I am by no means prepared to acknowledge that I am what you so pleasingly term "a funk," I readily allow that——'

• Suddenly a white funk comes over me and I blitz out and into the taxi again.

• You seem to be taking things coolly, but I don't mind confessing that I'chiliad in a blessed funk.

• The fact is, I let Harry Tristram put me in a funk, you know.

British Lexicon definitions for funk (1 of 4)

funk ^one

/ (fʌŋk) informal, mainly British /

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substantive

Besides called: blue funk a state of nervousness, fear, or low (esp in the phrase in a funk)

a coward

verb

to flinch from (responsibility) through fearfulness

(tr; usually passive) to brand afraid

Derived forms of funk

funker, noun

Word Origin for funk

C18: university slang, perhaps related to funk ²

British Dictionary definitions for funk (2 of 4)

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substantive

US slang a stiff foul aroma

Discussion Origin for funk

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

British Lexicon definitions for funk (3 of 4)

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noun

informal a blazon of polyrhythmic Black trip the light fantastic music with heavy syncopation

Word Origin for funk

C20: back formation from funky 1

British Dictionary definitions for funk (4 of 4)

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noun

Casimir (ˈkæzɪˌmɪə). 1884–1967, United states of america biochemist, born in Poland: studied and named vitamins

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Medical definitions for funk

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Polish-born American biochemist whose research of deficiency diseases led to the discovery of vitamins, which he named in 1912.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Lexicon Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Visitor.

Scientific definitions for funk

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Polish-built-in American biochemist who is credited with the discovery of vitamins. In 1912 he postulated the existence of four organic bases he called vitamines which were necessary for normal health and the prevention of deficiency diseases. He too contributed to the noesis of the hormones of the pituitary gland and the sex glands.

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