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Meanings of funk in English
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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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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Examples for "blue funk"
Examples for "blue funk"
1
Not agree, Major, only chance for us put him in blue funk.
2
Squatting there in a blue funk, struggling with guilt, wasn't doing any good.
3
You look to me to be in an absolute blue funk.
4
I hope you won't despise me for having been in a blue funk.
5
But I don't mind admitting that I'm in a blue funk.
Usage of funk in English
1
The chap in the near-by funk hole began to amuse me now.
2
From the opening dialled-up funk salvo of Music: Response I was hooked.
3
The funk does half the business in a man of that build.
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Major misstep: an inexplicable lack of Brazilian favela funk tracks about butts.
5
Two days later, I'm still in a funk about my roommates' gay-bashing.
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Constable Harris is in a dead funk, and has telephoned the sheriff.
7
Always I used to funk at the top of the Cresta run.
8
And I believe he is now gone to Matson in a funk.
9
The Canadians can find time to bring Martin's funk, but not CNN?
10
They had faith in their funk that they were going to die.
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But could funk be undergoing something of a resurrection at the moment?
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The controversy has done nothing to stop the popularity of baile funk.
13
I funk horribly, though I never get the least credit for it.
14
So take heed, kiddies: drugs will make you pledge allegiance to funk.
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Maybe it's a set of reflexive behaviors freakishly short-circuited by the funk.
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The air in the room was hot, stale, heavy with Whale funk.
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Ireland
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United States of America
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