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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of funk.

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Examples

  • Anonymous said ... wow ... itz like a book or somethin funked like that

    Darth Sidious: People Person 2005

  • He had had no idea that he would have, so to speak, "funked" it so.

    The Wooden Horse Hugh Walpole 1912

  • Ah, yes, to be sure we were heroes, and I too (though now soft and self-conscious) played an Homeric part upon the yard, was bold, and afraid, and "funked" it with any god-smitten, panic-driven half-god by

    A Tramp's Notebook Morley Roberts 1899

  • The one member of the Council who stands out in my memory as not having "funked" the Chairman is Mr. John Burns, whose action and bearing in the Council formed one of my most interesting studies.

    Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • His special line was to tell truths that other people either "funked," as he said, or overlooked, but he never told the only truth that seemed to me in these days to signify.

    The Figure in the Carpet Henry James 1879

  • His special line was to tell truths that other people either "funked," as he said, or overlooked, but he never told the only truth that seemed to me in these days to signify.

    Embarrassments Henry James 1879

  • He said that he really "funked" going aloft, for it made his head swim when he looked down.

    On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story William Heysham Overend 1874

  • Totski's position was very uncomfortable; having "funked" once, he could not totally regain his ease.

    The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

  • 'God bless my soul!' said Mr. Schnackenberger, who now 'funked' [24] enormously; 'if that's the case, she might well have so much spare room to offer me: twenty-three gentlemen!

    The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • However, one thing that kind of funked me out is the numpad on the right hand side.

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