funk
noun
[ fʌŋk ]
• a state of great fear or panic.
• "are you in a blue funk about running out of things to say?"
Similar:
panic,
state of fear,
fluster,
cold sweat,
flap,
state,
tizzy,
tizz,
tiz-woz,
dither,
stew,
blue funk,
twit,
• a coward.
• "I sit shuddering, too much of a funk to fight"
funk
verb
• avoid (something) out of fear.
• "I could have seen him this morning but I funked it"
Similar:
avoid,
evade,
dodge,
escape from,
run away from,
balk at,
flinch from,
wuss out,
chicken out of,
duck,
wriggle out of,
cop out of,
get out of,
Origin:
mid 18th century (first recorded as Oxford University slang): perhaps from funk2 in the slang sense ‘tobacco smoke’, or from obsolete Flemish fonck ‘disturbance, agitation’.
funk
noun
• a style of popular dance music of US black origin, based on elements of blues and soul and having a strong rhythm that typically accentuates the first beat in the bar.
• "a mixture of punk and funk"
• a strong musty smell of sweat or tobacco.
• "our sweat mingles, but the funk makes my stomach dizzy"
funk
verb
• give music elements of funk.
• "we're bringing back the old Motown sound and funking it up"
Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘musty smell’): perhaps from French dialect funkier ‘blow smoke on’, based on Latin fumus ‘smoke’.
