Definitions for funks

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Spelling: [fuhngk]

IPA: /fʌŋk/

Funks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in funks (fknsu).

Definitions for funks

noun

1. cowering fear; state of great fright or terror.
2. a dejected mood:
3. music having a funky quality.
4. the state or quality of being funky.
5. a strong smell; stench.
6. Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1967, U.S. biochemist, born in Poland: discovered thiamine, the first vitamin isolated.

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 funks

1735-45; perhaps early Dutch dialect fonck

Examples for funks

The word “funk” flashed through his mind, and left him wondering.

These beggars by the boat had every reason to go distracted with funk.

I suppose you have been asking yourself of late, what if you were to turn out to be a funk!'

Bamtz in his funk was only too glad to see the Frenchman humoured.

But even after the funk of the Bush years dispersed, we were left with a deeper truth.

The Nevilles' music, inspired by the ancestral rhythms of their city, is mostly pop, funk, and soul.

The funk legend treats unsuspecting concertgoers to an impromptu show.

Before the release of the fratastic film, America was in a funk.

This sends Pete into a funk, and he bails on a date to see Oh!

It must be said, in justice to Schomberg, that he concealed his funk very creditably.