"funks" in the noun sense
1. funk, blue funk
a state of nervous depression
"he was in a funk"
2. Funk, Casimir Funk
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)
3. funk
an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
"funks" in the verb sense
1. flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail
draw back, as with fear or pain
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
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