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Meanings of funk in English

Russian
фанк
Portuguese
funk music
Spanish
música funk
Catalan
música funk
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Music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when African-American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, psychedelic rock, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B)

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фанк
Portuguese
recuar
Catalan
contreure's
Spanish
recular

Draw back, as with fear or pain.

recuar
Portuguese
depressão

A state of nervous depression.

depressão
Portuguese
casimir funk
Catalan
casimir funk
Spanish
casimir funk

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)

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Usage of funk in English
1
The chap in the near-by funk hole began to amuse me now.
Winning a Cause: World War Stories
2
From the opening dialled-up funk salvo of Music: Response I was hooked.
The Irish Times
3
The funk does half the business in a man of that build.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
4
Major misstep: an inexplicable lack of Brazilian favela funk tracks about butts.
Reuters
5
Two days later, I'm still in a funk about my roommates' gay-bashing.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest ...
6
Constable Harris is in a dead funk, and has telephoned the sheriff.
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
7
Always I used to funk at the top of the Cresta run.
The Research Magnificent
8
And I believe he is now gone to Matson in a funk.
Richard Carvel — Volume 05
9
The Canadians can find time to bring Martin's funk, but not CNN?
Ebony
10
They had faith in their funk that they were going to die.
The Cruise of the Snark
11
But could funk be undergoing something of a resurrection at the moment?
Radio NZ
12
The controversy has done nothing to stop the popularity of baile funk.
The Guardian
13
I funk horribly, though I never get the least credit for it.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
14
So take heed, kiddies: drugs will make you pledge allegiance to funk.
Obama zombies: how the liberal machine brainwashed my generation
15
Maybe it's a set of reflexive behaviors freakishly short-circuited by the funk.
Wired
16
The air in the room was hot, stale, heavy with Whale funk.
Gutshot straight
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Translations for funk
Funk through the time
Funk across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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