funking

Verb (1)

funk (third-person singular simple present funks, present participle funking, simple past and past participle funked)

1. (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
2. (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
   • He funks Basketia and her son to deathc. 1709, William King, The Furmentary
3. (intransitive) To perform funk music.
   • From the earliest part of this decade when he funked in relative obscurity to his days as a superstar with the release of his Batman soundtrack last summer, I could almost always count on Prince.1989 December 17, Christopher Wittke, “On The Edge In The '80s”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 9
4. (euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word).
   • Funk this!

Verb (2)

funk (third-person singular simple present funks, present participle funking, simple past and past participle funked)

1. (ambitransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
   • He'll have funked it, when he comes to the edge, and sees nothing but mist below1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC
2. (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.

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