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Definition of Funking
1. funk [v] - See also: funk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Funking
Literary usage of Funking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"... funking, with a large Flower. 11. LAMIUM Orientale, faint eleganter ...
they become funking and ..."
2. The Challenge of the Dead: A Vision of the War and the Life of the Common by Stephen Graham (1921)
"Get out of the way, you funking throng, They'll put to rights what you've done
wrong, THE GUARDS DIVISION. (And they did. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"The act of striking behind, S. "It's hard to gar a wicked cout leave off funking."
Blackw. Mag., Mar. 1823, p. 313. FUNNIE, adj. 1. ..."
4. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"Funk, trepidation, nervousness, cowardice. To FUNK, to be afraid or nervous.
Funk, to smoke out, or terrify. funking the cobbler, a bold schoolboy trick, ..."
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