funk
funk is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An offensive smell; a stench. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. An offensive smell; a stench.
- transitive verb. To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
- intransitive verb. To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
- intransitive verb. To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
- noun. Alt. of Funking
- noun. an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
- noun. United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
- noun. a state of nervous depression
"he was in a funk"
- verb. draw back, as with fear or pain
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
Synonyms
cringe, flinch, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince
Common word forms
funks, funked, funker, funking
Words from these letters
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