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Definition of Blue funk
1. Noun. A state of nervous depression. "He was in a funk"
Definition of Blue funk
1. Noun. nervous depression ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Funk
Literary usage of Blue funk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1903)
"PRS in a continual blue funk is not likely to be either dignified or useful; and
unless I am in a better frame of mind in October I am afraid I shall have ..."
2. Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases by James Main Dixon (1891)
"A blue funk—a state of terrified expectation; a condition of frightened ... S.
Altogether, I was In the pitiable state known by school-boys as a blue funk. ..."
3. The Admiralty of the Atlantic: An Enquiry Into the Development of German Sea by Percival A. Hislam (1908)
"Some one has labelled this party the " blue funk" school, to distinguish them,
apparently, from the " Blue Water " school from which, nevertheless, ..."
4. The Autobiography of an English Gamekeeper by John Wilkins, Arthur H. Byng, Stephen M. Stephens (1892)
"poacher in a way I little expected; I cannot, from experience, describe the
sensation of a " blue funk," but doubtless some of my readers have felt it, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"blue funk (English and American), extreme fright. It put me in a regular biue
funk.— Punch. Blue moon (proverbial), an undefined period, used in the phrase, ..."
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