[fʌŋk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- 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
(e.g: a mixture of punk and funk)

- a strong musty smell of sweat or tobacco
(e.g: our sweat mingles, but the funk makes my stomach dizzy)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘musty smell’): perhaps from French dialect funkier ‘blow smoke on’, based on Latin fumus ‘smoke’

[fʌŋk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- give music elements of funk
(e.g: we're bringing back the old Motown sound and funking it up)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘musty smell’): perhaps from French dialect funkier ‘blow smoke on’, based on Latin fumus ‘smoke’

[fʌŋk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a state of great fear or panic
(e.g: are you in a blue funk about running out of things to say?)

- a coward
(e.g: I sit shuddering, too much of a funk to fight)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 18th century (first recorded as Oxford University slang): perhaps from funk in the slang sense ‘tobacco smoke’, or from obsolete Flemish fonck ‘disturbance, agitation’

[fʌŋk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- avoid (something) out of fear
(e.g: I could have seen him this morning but I funked it)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 18th century (first recorded as Oxford University slang): perhaps from funk in the slang sense ‘tobacco smoke’, or from obsolete Flemish fonck ‘disturbance, agitation’