Funk is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FUNK in dictionary:

VERB:
• to shrink back in fear
• avoid (something) out of fear
• give music elements of funk
• To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
• To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
• To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
• draw back, as with fear or pain
• avoid (doing something) through fear
NOUN:
• a state of great fear or panic
• a state of depression
• a coward
• 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 strong musty smell of sweat or tobacco
• style of dance music with a strong beat
• An offensive smell; a stench.
• Alt. of Funking
• a state of nervous depression
• 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)
• an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

Words related to FUNK

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Words that contain FUNK

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How to use FUNK in a sentence

• Sedleigh, with the exception of Adair, Psmith, and Mike, had entered upon this match in a state of the most azure funk.
• I can tell you, I shook for a time, with sheer funk.
• For an instant I held back, stupidly, paralyzed with funk and then, blindly and in a sort of rigid chill of goose flesh I went to help him, shouting his name.
• And if the sheep get harder, then a few more men will funk, Unless we get another fall of rain.
• But infernal nuisance or not, he had to deal with it, could not funk it.
• This was a most necessary precaution, for the blacks were in a funk, and a whale-boat left lying on the beach in the evening meant a loss of twenty blacks by morning.
• He was obviously on a decline, caused by sheer funk.
• I know the sort of funk that takes you the first time you try this kind of game.
• Funk, editor-in-chief, Calvin Thomas, consulting editor, Frank H.
• Funk and Wagnalls new standard encyclopedia year book for 1947.
• Funk and Wagnalls Company, employer for hire of Charles Earle Funk, editor.
• By Funk and Wagnalls Company, employer for hire of Joseph Laffan Morse.
• The Funk and Wagnalls new standard dictionary of the English language.
• I was hot and frightfully heady, quite apart from the blue funk I was in.
• I perceive I am lax and flabby, unguarded, I funk too much, I eat too much, and I drink too much.
• Herr Funk was better known in the Cercle Bougainville than Charcot or Lister or Darwin.
• Each man vied with the other in radiating a blue funk, until the air was as thick as a London fog.
• How we lived through those first electric four days of August! Would the Liberal government funk? We doubted them unjustly.
• For an instant I felt in an awful funk, and my one idea was to flee from that sinister spot as fast as I could.
• I went to the Chief of Police, and he was in a blue funk.
• My view is that they are in a funk at Pretoria, and they were wrong to agree from here.
• Two Alaculofs died of funk when they set eyes on the nigger who turned up in the life-boat.
• I had selected a German funk hole for cover! As I landed, a second boche who like the first had been squatted down rose to his feet, slowly, it seemed, alongside me.
• The first one had fallen backward, supported by the side of the funk hole.
• The chap in the near-by funk hole began to amuse me now.
• Keith had no consciousness of having been in danger, but he was in a funk because of his wet clothing.
• The night he was killed I found him in a rare funk in his room.
• She got it out before I could make her stop, and for just a minute I was in a blue funk.
• Funk was on the prohibition ticket, because he had represented prohibition all his life.
• Indigestion can produce, waking or asleep, a very good imitation of what is experienced in a blue funk.

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