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funk

/fʌŋk/noun, verb1 syllable

Funk means: draw back, as with fear or pain.

Synonyms for funk11

noun, as in 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)

Casimir Funk

noun, as in a state of nervous depression

blue funk

verb, as in draw back, as with fear or pain

flinch, squinch, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail

also used for funk

eff, f-bomb

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What does funk mean?4

verb

1

draw back, as with fear or pain“she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”

noun

1

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)

2

a state of nervous depression“he was in a funk”

3

an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with funk?12

one syllable

drunkpunkjunktrunkmonksunkchunkdunkbunkshrunkhunkskunk
Show 40 near rhymes
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Funk in a sentence

  • Make sure you clean the funk out of the filter every month.shekitten
  • Tom's band was in a funk, and you could smell it on them.shekitten
  • It's time to wash off that funk, Tom. You stink.shekitten
  • It's time to wash that funk off, Tom. You stink.shekitten
  • Tom was in a funk band.shekitten
  • Tom's funk band was in a funk.shekitten

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of funk

as a noun

plural
funks

as a verb

past tense
funked
present participle
funking
third-person singular
funks
past participle
funked