Thesaurus: funk

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1. n. An offensive smell; a stench.
2. v. t. To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
3. v. i. To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
4. v. i. To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
5. n. Alt. of Funking
6. n. a state of nervous depression
7. n. an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
8. v. draw back, as with fear or pain
9. An offensive smell; a stench. [Low] To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. [Obs.] King. 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.] C. Kingsley. To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers). A shrinking back through fear. [Colloq.] "The horrid panic, or funk (as the men of Eton call it)." De Quincey.
10. An offensive smell; a stench. [Low]
11. v:16/n:84 n. a state of nervous depression n. 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) n. an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar