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waterfunks

waterfunks is the plural of waterfunk.

Meaning of waterfunk

Noun

waterfunk (plural waterfunks)

  1. (UK, colloquial, dated) Someone who is afraid to go into water; a hydrophobe.
    • We remember in ancient times, when William IV. was king, on a magnificent sheet of brownish water, gracefully named Duck Puddle, a select little coterie of waterfunks (the title sufficiently explains itself—Etonicè frousts) would be unjustifiably but carefully placed on two old punts, or on a punt...1861 September 7, “Tale of the Tub”, in The Living Age, volume XIV (third series), number 901, Boston, M.A.: Littell, Son, & Co., →OCLC, page 613, column 1

Questions about waterfunks

What is waterfunks the plural of?
Waterfunks is the plural of waterfunk.

Words near waterfunks in the dictionary

  1. waterfrontages
  2. waterfronted
  3. waterfronts
  4. waterful
  5. waterfunk
  6. waterfunks
  7. watergang
  8. watergangs
  9. watergate
  10. Watergate salad
  11. Watergate salads

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