funk
verb/fʌŋk/
/fʌŋk/
(British English, old-fashioned, informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they funk | /fʌŋk/ /fʌŋk/ |
| he / she / it funks | /fʌŋks/ /fʌŋks/ |
| past simple funked | /fʌŋkt/ /fʌŋkt/ |
| past participle funked | /fʌŋkt/ /fʌŋkt/ |
| -ing form funking | /ˈfʌŋkɪŋ/ /ˈfʌŋkɪŋ/ |
- funk something to avoid doing something because you are afraid to or find it difficultWord Originverb mid 18th cent. (first recorded as Oxford University slang): perhaps from funk in the slang sense ‘tobacco smoke’, or from obsolete Flemish fonck ‘disturbance, agitation’.
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