funk
noun
cowering fear; state of great fright or terror.
have funked
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present perfectof funk.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It is true that Oswald had his boots on, but I trust he would not have funked the unknown terrors of the deep, even without his boots, I am almost sure he would not have.
From The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit
"I should have funked it," was his way of putting it, by which he meant that he would have funked it through sheer ignorance of himself and of his aptitude for the high and noble.
From The Street Called Straight by Orson Lowell
"You oughtn't to have funked telling your mother what you meant to do."
From Fraternity by John Galsworthy
It is true that Oswald had his boots on, but I trust he would not have funked the unknown terrors of the deep, even without his boots.
From The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit
If I don't come, they will know that I have funked.
From The Man from Brodney's by George Barr McCutcheon
