Noun

funk (countable and uncountable, plural funks)Category:English lemmas#FUNKCategory:English nouns#FUNKCategory:English uncountable nouns#FUNKCategory:English countable nouns#FUNKCategory:English countable nouns#FUNKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#FUNK) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
   • 1982, “Thriller”, in Rod Temperton (lyrics), Quincy Jones (music), Thriller, performed by Michael Jackson (featuring Vincent Price), Epic Records:

     The foulest stench is in the air; the funk of 40,000 years and grizzly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom.

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2. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#FUNK, musicCategory:en:Musical genres#FUNK) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.

Verb

funk (third-person singular simple present funks, present participle funking, simple past and past participle funked)Category:English lemmas#FUNKCategory:English verbs#FUNKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#FUNK) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FUNK) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
   • c. 1709, William King, The Furmentary:

     He funks Basketia and her son to death

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   • 2012, M. C. Beaton, Diana the Huntress:

     Funking a cobbler – that is, blowing smoke into his stall; smoking cigars at divans and club houses; […]

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3. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#FUNK) To perform funk music.
   • 1989 December 17, Christopher Wittke, “On The Edge In The '80s”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 9:

     From the earliest part of this decade when he funked in relative obscurity to his days as a superstar with the release of his Batman soundtrack last summer, I could almost always count on Prince.

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4. (euphemisticCategory:English euphemisms#FUNK, slangCategory:English slang#FUNK) Fuck (the taboo swear word).

   Funk this!Category:English terms with usage examples#FUNK

   • 2017, Bootsy Collins, “Snow Bunny”, in World Wide Funk:

     Snow bunny, I pledge to funk you baby / You sexy lady, my only temptation […] Oh, I just want to funk you

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   • 2023 November 25, Matt Wake, “Five meals under $10 that I love from local Huntsville restaurants (and you will, too!)”, in The Huntsville Times, Huntsville, Ala., →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Look, glittery tacos have their place. A date, business lunch, night out with besties, etc. But otherwise, paying almost 20 bucks for pizzazz between a few tortillas in Huntsville, funk that.

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Alternative forms

• vaunk

Noun

funk (plural funks)Category:English lemmas#FUNKCategory:English nouns#FUNKCategory:English countable nouns#FUNKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#FUNK) Touchwood, punk, tinder.

Noun

funk (countable and uncountable, plural funks)Category:English lemmas#FUNKCategory:English nouns#FUNKCategory:English uncountable nouns#FUNKCategory:English countable nouns#FUNKCategory:English countable nouns#FUNKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#FUNK) Mental depression.

   I've been in a funk lately, I fell into a funk, I slipped into a funk, I was stuck in a funkCategory:English terms with collocations#FUNK

   it helped me get out of a funkCategory:English terms with collocations#FUNK

2. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#FUNK) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
   • 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:

     [The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk […]

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   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 4:

     —A woful lunatic, Mulligan said. Were you in a funk?

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   • 1925 May 14, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, →OCLC:

     Holmes was coming upstairs. Holmes would burst open the door. Holmes would say, “In a funk, eh?” Holmes would get him.

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   • 1944 (written, first published in 2015), Bob Cooney, Proud Journey

     As I left the platform, the atmosphere was tense but there was no sign of uneasiness or funk […]

3. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#FUNK) One who fears or panics; a coward.
   • 1875, The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style, The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style:

     It is the long probation in the old way of teaching that fellows funk at or makes funks of them and their slow pace, almost up to the end of that probation, all who teach themselves are in a worse predicament as the hands with them are made the principle propellors instead of the feet.

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Verb

funk (third-person singular simple present funks, present participle funking, simple past and past participle funked)Category:English lemmas#FUNKCategory:English verbs#FUNKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FUNKCategory:English intransitive verbs#FUNK) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
   • 1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:

     He'll have funked it, when he comes to the edge, and sees nothing but mist below

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   • 1875, The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style, The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style:

     It is the long probation in the old way of teaching that fellows funk at or makes funks of them and their slow pace, almost up to the end of that probation, all who teach themselves are in a worse predicament as the hands with them are made the principle propellors instead of the feet.

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   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:

     "Always wanted a go at the figure. Funked it. Shows what a man can do, given the right model. Dam' good model."

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FUNK) To frighten; to cause to flinch.

Noun

funk c (singular definite funken, not used in plural form)Category:Danish lemmas#FUNKCategory:Danish nouns#FUNKCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Danish common-gender nouns#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. (musicCategory:da:Music#FUNK) funk

See also

• funky

Verb

funkCategory:Danish non-lemma forms#FUNKCategory:Danish verb forms#FUNKCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. imperative of funke

Noun

funk m (definite singular funken, uncountable)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#FUNKCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#FUNKCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk uncountable nouns#FUNKCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. (musicCategory:nn:Music#FUNK) funk

Verb

funkCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms#FUNKCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verb forms#FUNKCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. imperative of funke

Verb

funk (present tense funke, past tense funka, past participle funka)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#FUNKCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verbs#FUNKCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. (dialectalCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk dialectal terms#FUNK, TrøndelagCategory:Trøndersk Norwegian#FUNK, NordnorskCategory:Northern Norwegian#FUNK) alternative form of funke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaŋk/Category:Polish 1-syllable words#FUNKCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#FUNK
• Rhymes: -aŋkCategory:Rhymes:Polish/aŋk#FUNKCategory:Rhymes:Polish/aŋk/1 syllable#FUNK
• Syllabification: funk

Noun

funk m inanCategory:Polish lemmas#FUNKCategory:Polish nouns#FUNKCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Polish masculine nouns#FUNKCategory:Polish inanimate nouns#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. funk (genre of popular music)

   Synonym: funky

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuŋk/Category:Polish 1-syllable words#FUNKCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#FUNK
• Rhymes: -uŋkCategory:Rhymes:Polish/uŋk#FUNKCategory:Rhymes:Polish/uŋk/1 syllable#FUNK
• Syllabification: funk

Noun

funk m persCategory:Polish lemmas#FUNKCategory:Polish nouns#FUNKCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#FUNKCategory:Polish masculine nouns#FUNKCategory:Polish personal nouns#FUNKCategory:Pages with entries#FUNKCategory:Pages with 7 entries#FUNK

1. (historicalCategory:Polish terms with historical senses#FUNK, rareCategory:Polish terms with rare senses#FUNK) official, officer, agent, functionary (paid official of a political party or state security institution)
   • 1996, Henryk Pająk, Rządy zbirów: 1940-1990:

     W czołowym dzienniku polskojęzycznym uczą nas demokracji, tolerancji, europejskości synale wybitnych funków Komunistycznej Partii Polski, KPZU.

     In the leading Polish-language daily, we are taught democracy, tolerance, and European-ness by the sons of prominent officials of the Communist Party of Poland, CPWU.

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Derived terms

• funkeiro, baile funk