Funk

Noun

 * 1)  spark
 * 2)  touchwood, punk, tinder

Noun

 * 1)  mental depression
 * 2)  A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly

Verb

 * 1) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear

Noun

 * 1)  Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odour. Examples of 18th Century usage cited in Universal English Dictionary, 1896.
 * 2)  A genre of popular music associated with the 1970s and typified by prominent bass guitar and horn section.

Derived terms

 * funky

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
From funke:, fonke:, from  *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with funke:, fanke:,  vonke:,  funcho:, funko:,  Funke:. More at.

Etymology 2
1743, Scottish and Northern English dialectal word, originally a verb meaning "to panic, fail due to panic". Perhaps from or cognate with obsolete fonck:, from  fonck:. More at.

Etymology 3
1620, from dialectal (Norman) funquer:, funquier:, from  fungier:, from  fumicare:, alteration of  fumigare:. Related to dialect funkière:. More at.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Funk
 * Italian: funkulo


 * Japanese: ファンク
 * Portuguese: fânque
 * Spanish:


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