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Meaning funk meaning

What does funk mean?
Definitions in simple English

funk Noun

— A genre of music. My brother likes jazz music, but I like funk — Something with an unpleasant smell. His dirty socks smelled like funk

funk

— noun a state of nervous depression he was in a funk — noun an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar — verb (= flinch) draw back, as with fear or pain she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf

Funk

— noun 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)

Synonyms funk synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as funk?

funk English » English

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Funk English » English

Casimir Funk

Conjugation funk conjugation

How do you conjugate funk?

funk · verb

Examples funk examples

How do I use funk in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

The emperor's a funk.
You'd funk it.
He was in such a funk, he couldn't lift his arm.
If you're really afraid of dying. you'd be living in a funk all the rest of your life. because you know you've got to go someday, any day.
Someone's in a blue funk.
Querida, you've been in a blue funk all day.
Teresa - Teresa - You were in a blue funk the whole time.
A brand new release from the funk capital of the world, Squeeze Me.
Most people might be in a frightful funk, but it's all in a day's work!
I flunked flank. Get the funk out of here. Here.
You're a funk!
The Earl of Funk.
Earl of Funk, Duke of Cool, Ayatollah of Rock-and-Roll-a.
Now funkify it. Give me some real funk.
If you're afraid of dying, you'd spend your life in a funk because you know you've got to go someday.
And the boyar, what a spunk! Tried to make them funk.
A brand-new release from the funk capital of the world, Squeeze Me.
MAN: (ON RADIO) All right. That is so bad, super smash number three with a bullet to slow the pace to taste. Here's a bit of mellow funk.
He was drunk as a skunk in a funk.
And now, back from an awesomely successful tour the Earl of Funk, the Duke of Cool the Ayatollah of Rock-and-Roll-a, Stitch Jones!
Red, you gonna be right down in the funk with us.
If you're really afraid of dying, you'd be living in a funk all the rest of your life because you know you've got to go someday, any day.
The leech tries to fool me. That's because he's a funk.
Give me some real funk.
Yes, a tour with a funk band.
They combine forces into some kind of strange mutant funk.
I step into a blue funk.
This wicked funk.
Everyone said it was a stupid move, but I didn't care because I loved you and wanted to see you pull yourself out of this senseless funk that you've been in since that whore dumped you so many years ago.
Funk, Gutter.
The P-Funk All-Stars.
The man is the king of interplanetary funk.
Funk you very much too.
If Shooter doesn't get out of the funk he's in. he may miss out on the gold jacket.

News and current affairs

Much political rhetoric, and a spate of new books, would have us believe that the US is now in a dangerous state of funk.
In a word, funk.
Colombians were in a funk, and they took it out on Santos.
The deeper the slowdown in other countries and the higher the dollar rises, the less the US will be able to decouple from the funk everywhere else, even if domestic demand seems robust.
One shudders to think what will happen if Europe does not pull out of its current funk.
The subtlety and maturity of his diplomacy over Iraq are but another sign that Russia is emerging from its long post-communist funk to find its voice in an American-led world.
Brazilians are in a funk, too, and they are directing their ire against the ruling Workers' Party, with the ongoing World Cup soccer tournament and plans for the 2016 Olympics serving as prominent symbols of its leadership.
Slow growth and high expectations have left the region in a deepening funk, and nobody seems quite sure how to escape it, leaving citizens and leaders alike to wait, watch, and hope.

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