funked

[ fuhngkt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Southern U.S. (chiefly Kentucky).

Origin of funked¹

1890–95; funk punk (noun) ( Middle English fonk; cognate with Dutch vonk, German Funke ) + -ed ³

Some of my green men had funked just at the crucial moment, and I had all but shot one.

"No, I had a chance and I—funked it," said Harry, slow in speech and slow in smile.

He said that he really “funked” going aloft, for it made his head swim when he looked down.

When you funked becoming a Beethoven, I got a dog and called him after you.

One would think I was eighty; Ive never funked a horse yet, and Im not going to begin now.

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