Definitions for funked

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Spelling: [fuhngkt]
IPA: /fʌŋkt/

Funked is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in funked (defknu).

Definitions for funked

noun

  1. cowering fear; state of great fright or terror.
  2. a dejected mood:

adjective

  1. rotten; moldy.

verb (used with object)

  1. to be afraid of.
  2. to frighten.
  3. to shrink from; try to shirk.

verb (used without object)

  1. to shrink or quail in fear.

Origin of funked

1890-95; funk punk (noun) (Middle English fonk; cognate with Dutch vonk, German Funke) + -ed3

Examples for funked

But Sturton knew, the delicate Bagshaw also, that Rawlings had funked.

You oughtn't to have funked telling your mother what you meant to do.

"No, I had a chance and I—funked it," said Harry, slow in speech and slow in smile.

Now it was Albert's turn to go in and dig, but he funked it.

I simply had to hunt and shoot the beast, or let the people think I funked it.

At the eviction a man had funked, frightened out of his seven senses.

After this rebuff the Jews funked; their hearts "melted and became as water."

Some of my green men had funked just at the crucial moment, and I had all but shot one.

Discipline, and the knowledge that if I funked, my name would stick in the mud for ever.

Old Erradeen had not a bad spirit of his own, and he funked it.

Word Value for funked
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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