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funk
noun- a strong human smell; the smell of human sexual activity US, 1917
- Better to suffocate, he reasoned, than to die from an overload of funk. — Donald Goines, White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief, p. 20, 1973
- semen; smegma US
- They had fried shit choplets and hot funk custard/ Drank spit out of cocktail glasses and used afterbirth for mustard. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 112, 1976
- a genre of dance music that combines soul, blues, gospel and jazz with irresistible beats and rhythms US, 1958
From the sense as “the smell of sex”. - If you ain’t reggae for it, funk out! / No-one knocking at your door? / Overpowered by funk? Funk out! — The Clash 1982
- Ambassadors of Funk went out to conquer America and the world. — Alan Shulman, The Style Bible, p. 99, 1999
- “I was lucky enough to be the one who created real funk [...],” says James Brown, who, as the godfather of funk, should know. — Ben Osborne, The A-Z of Club Culture, p. 102, 1999
- a depressed state of mind UK, 1820
- He fell into a black funk, then snatched the record off the turntable and shattered it with the hammer he kept in the tool box under the kitchen sink. — Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City, p. 39, 1982
- Lefty came over in a blue funk. His sister heard on the grapevine about his penile eccentricity and told his parents. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 12, 1993
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