funk
noun
cowering fear; state of great fright or terror.
was funking
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past progressiveof funk.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I longed to have the courage to say, "Let us both go home," but I knew he would think that I was funking and it was still early in the day.
From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Margot Asquith
Upon this Campbell assured me of his belief that I was funking, and I immediately concurred with him.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray
My father was a proud man, Mary, as proud as your mother, and I think he'd have died of shame if he'd thought I was funking this.
From Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
