funking

noun

1. cowering fear; state of great fright or terror.
2. a dejected mood: He’s been in a funk ever since she walked out on him.

verb (used with object)

3. to be afraid of.
4. to frighten.
5. to shrink from; try to shirk.

verb (used without object)

6. to shrink or quail in fear.

noun

1. Also called: blue funk a state of nervousness, fear, or depression (esp in the phrase in a funk)
2. a coward

verb

3. to flinch from (responsibility) through fear
4. (tr; usually passive) to make afraid

noun

1. US slang a strong foul odour

noun

1. informal a type of polyrhythmic Black dance music with heavy syncopation

noun

1. Casimir (ˈkæzɪˌmɪə). 1884–1967, US biochemist, born in Poland: studied and named vitamins

n.1

“depression, ill-humor,” 1743, probably originally Scottish and northern English; earlier as a verb, “panic, fail through panic,” (1737), said to be 17c. Oxford University slang, perhaps from Flemish fonck “perturbation, agitation, distress,” possibly related to Old French funicle “wild, mad.”

n.2

“bad smell,” 1620s, from dialectal French funkière “smoke,” from Old French fungier “give off smoke; fill with smoke,” from Latin fumigare “to smoke” (see fume (n.)). In reference to a style of music, it is first attested 1959, a back-formation from funky.

1. Polish-born American biochemist whose research of deficiency diseases led to the discovery of vitamins, which he named in 1912.

1. Polish-born American biochemist who is credited with the discovery of vitamins. In 1912 he postulated the existence of four organic bases he called vitamines which were necessary for normal health and the prevention of deficiency diseases. He also contributed to the knowledge of the hormones of the pituitary gland and the sex glands.