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Funky

adjective

Offensively malodorous. Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking. "The kitchen smelled really funky"

(of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues. Synonym: low-down.

Stylish and modern in an unconventional way. "We did it all in black and white in a very funky sixties style"

In a state of cowardly fright.

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"Funky" Quotes from Famous Books

... more interesting than alarming. Fear is seated in the imagination, I think, and vanishes once the mind can assert itself. One feels very funky in the cold nights when nothing is happening: but if one has to handle men under fire, one is braced up and one's attention is occupied. I expect rifle fire is much more trying: but the fact that shell-fire is more or less ...

— Letters from Mesopotamia • Robert Palmer

... friends sit in the Strangers' Gallery to hear their late President make his first great effort in the real Parliament. The effect disappoints them. Their champion is "funky." When the Oxford Eight were behind at Barnes Bridge, it was "Dolly's" muscle and nerve that pulled the crew together and won the race. When at Lord's the match was nearly over, and the Light Blues had won ...

— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Harry Furniss

... stays. Laying hold of my tool I pulled it out. "Stand there as long as you like, you look lovely,—as you won't let me fuck you, I'll frig myself." Suiting the action to the word I began fist-fucking, not meaning however to finish so. It was but chaff, for indeed I was funky. ...

— My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. - 1888 Edition • Anonymous