(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:48:36

Funk, Funk"ing, n.

A shrinking back through fear.

[Colloq.] "The horrid panic, or funk (as the men of Eton call it)."

De Quincey.

 

© Webster 1913.

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