Definition of Funk

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Definition of Funk

Funk

An offensive smell; a stench.

To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.

To emit an offensive smell; to stink.

To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.

Alt. of Funking

One who funks; a shirk; a coward.

To funk at; to flinch at; to shrink from (a thing or person); as, to funk a task.

To frighten; to cause to flinch.

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Funk Quotations

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.
Bill Hicks

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.
Ritchie Blackmore

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
Lenny Kravitz

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.
John Otto

You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.
Colin Mochrie

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.
Michael Hutchence

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
Ray Liotta

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
Ikue Mori

There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
Afrika Bambaataa

I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.
Arto Lindsay

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