funk
noun
cowering fear; state of great fright or terror.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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For to tell the truth, I had been funking this visit.
From The Man from the Clouds by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston