FUNK

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

An offensive smell; a stench. [Low]

2.
v.

To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. [Obs.] King.

3.
v.

To emit an offensive smell; to stink.

4.
v.

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).

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