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   funk

   /fʌŋk/

   noun

   • 1. a state of great fear or panic: British "are you in a blue funk about running out of things to say?" Similar panicstate of fearflusterinformal:cold sweatflapstatetizzytizztiz-wozditherstewblue funktwit
   • ▪ a state of depression: North American "I sat absorbed in my own blue funk" Similar depressioninformal:the dumpsthe doldrumslowblue funk
   • 2. a coward: dated British "I sit shuddering, too much of a funk to fight"

   verb

   • 1. avoid (something) out of fear: British "I could have seen him this morning but I funked it"

   Word Origin mid 18th century (first recorded as Oxford University slang): perhaps from funk1 in the slang sense ‘tobacco smoke’, or from obsolete Flemish fonck ‘disturbance, agitation’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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     4

   • U

     1

   • N

     1

   • K

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