funk

8 definitions found

funk - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Funk \Funk\ (f[u^][ng]k), n.
     an earthy, seemingly unsophisticated style of jazz music
     having elements of black American blues and gospel.
     [PJC]

  Funk \Funk\, v. t.
     1. To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. [Obs.]
        --King.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To funk at; to flinch at; to shrink from (a thing or
        person); as, to funk a task. [Colloq.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     3. To frighten; to cause to flinch. [Colloq.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  Funk \Funk\, v. i.
     1. To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk
        at the edge of a precipice. [Colloq.] --C. Kingsley.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              To funk right out o' political strife. --Lowell
                                                    (Biglow
                                                    Papers).
        Funk

  Funk \Funk\, Funking \Funk"ing\, n.
     A shrinking back through fear. [Colloq.] "The horrid panic,
     or funk (as the men of Eton call it)." --De Quincey.
     [1913 Webster]

  Funk \Funk\ (f[u^][ng]k), n. [OE. funke a little fire; akin to
     Prov. E. funk touchwood, G. funke spark, and perh. to Goth.
     f[=o]n fire.]
     1. An offensive smell; a stench. [Low]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. One who funks; a shirk; a coward. [Colloq.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     3. a state of fear.
        [PJC]
  
     4. a mildly depressed state of mind; -- often used in the
        phrase blue funk.
        [PJC]

funk - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  funk
      n 1: a state of nervous depression; "he was in a funk" [syn:
           funk, blue funk]
      2: 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) [syn: Funk, Casimir Funk]
      3: an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has
         a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
      v 1: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they
           showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch,
           squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil,
           quail]

funk - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Funk, NE (village, FIPS 17880)
    Location: 40.46294 N, 99.24953 W
    Population (1990): 198 (82 housing units)
    Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 68940

funk - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "funk":
     Milquetoast, abject fear, affright, alarm, awe, baby, back out,
     big baby, blench, blink, blue funk, boggle, change color, chicken,
     chicken liver, chicken out, consternation, coward, cowardice,
     craven, cringe, curdle the blood, dastard, desert under fire,
     dismay, disquiet, draw back, dread, falter, fear, flinch,
     fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, freeze, fright, frighten, funk out, funker,
     get cold feet, grow pale, horrification, horripilate, horror,
     invertebrate, jellyfish, lily liver, lose courage,
     make one tremble, milksop, mouse, pale, panic, panic fear, phobia,
     poltroon, quail, quitter, raise apprehensions, recoil, reek, scare,
     scaredy-cat, scuttle, shake, shrink, sissy, skedaddle, spook,
     stagger, stampede, startle, stench, stink, take alarm, take fright,
     terror, turn color, turn pale, unholy dread, unman, unnerve,
     unstring, weak sister, weakling, white feather, white liver,
     wince