Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An offensive smell; a stench.
- 2transitive verb
To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
- 3intransitive verb
To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
- 4intransitive verb
To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
- 5noun
Alt. of Funking
- 6noun
an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
- 7noun
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)
- 8noun
a state of nervous depression
"he was in a funk"
- 9verb
draw back, as with fear or pain
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
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