funk

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.

   “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.”

2. isim 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.
3. fiil To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
4. fiil To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.

   “He funks Basketia and her son to death”

5. fiil To perform funk music.

   “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.”

6. fiil Fuck (the taboo swear word).

   “Funk this!”

7. isim Touchwood, punk, tinder.
8. isim Mental depression.

   “I've been in a funk lately, I fell into a funk, I slipped into a funk, I was stuck in a funk”

9. isim A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.

   “[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 […]”

10. isim One who fears or panics; a coward.

    “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.”

11. fiil To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.

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

12. fiil To frighten; to cause to flinch.