funk
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /fʌŋk/
美 /fʌŋk/|/fɐŋk/|/faŋk/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
- Touchwood, punk, tinder.
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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
- 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.
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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 […]
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One who fears or panics; a coward.
— 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 themselves are in a worse predicament as the hands with them are made the principle propellors instead of the feet.
动词 v.
- To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
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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
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To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
— He funks Basketia and her son to death
- To frighten; to cause to flinch.
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To perform funk music.
— From the earliest part of this decade when he funked in relative obscurity to his days as a superstar with the release of his Batman soundtrack last summer, I could almost always count on Prince.
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Fuck (the taboo swear word).
— Funk this!
词汇关系
衍生词
avant-funk
blue funk
deep funk
disco funk
drumfunk
dundy-funk
dundy funk
electro-funk
electrofunk
fake the funk
funkabilly
funkadelia
funkadelic
funk art
funkateer
funkcore
funk hole
funkification
funk-like
funklike
funkmaster
funk metal
funk-metal
funk money
funk out
funk rock
funk-rock
funksome
funkster
funkstick
funktastic
funky
future funk
G-funk
gunk
jazz-funk
neurofunk
technofunk
funk up
funk you
funkhole
funker
词源
词源 1
1620, from French dialectal (Norman) funquer, funquier (“to smoke, reek”), from Old Northern French fungier (“to smoke”), from Vulgar Latin fūmicāre, alteration of Latin fūmigāre (“to smoke, fumigate”). Related to French dialect funkière (“smoke”). More at fumigate.
词源 2
From Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”). Cognate with Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”). See also spunk.
词源 3
1743, Scottish and Northern English dialectal word, originally a verb meaning “to panic, fail due to panic”. Perhaps from or cognate with obsolete Dutch fonck (“distress, agitation”), from Middle Dutch fonck (“perturbation, agitation”). More at flunk.
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