OXFORD 9000
📚 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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