OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12520

funk

/fʌŋk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hedor
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.
funk
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.
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 12522

funk

/fʌŋk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
yesca • yescas
Touchwood, punk, tinder.
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 12523

funk

/fʌŋk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bajones • bajón • depresiones • depresión
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
it helped me get out of a funk
miedo • miedos • pánico • pánicos
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 […]
—A woful lunatic, Mulligan said. Were you in a funk?
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Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 12521

funk

/fʌŋk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ahúmar • apestar
To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
Funking a cobbler – that is, blowing smoke into his stall; smoking cigars at divans and club houses; […]
He funks Basketia and her son to death
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📚 verb • entry_id 12524

funk

/fʌŋk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acobardarse • evitar por miedo • rehuir
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
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 themselve…
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