What does FUNK mean?

Definitions for FUNK
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. funk, blue funknoun

    a state of nervous depression

    "he was in a funk"

  2. Funk, Casimir Funknoun

    United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)

  3. funkverb

    an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

  4. flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quailverb

    draw back, as with fear or pain

    "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

GCIDE

  1. Funknoun

    a state of fear.

  2. Funknoun

    a mildly depressed state of mind; -- often used in the phrase blue funk.

  3. Funknoun

    an earthy, seemingly unsophisticated style of jazz music having elements of black American blues and gospel.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Funknoun

    A stink. A low word.

Wikipedia

  1. Funk

    Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the mid-20th century. It de-emphasizes melody and chord progressions and focuses on a strong rhythmic groove of a bassline played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a percussionist, often at slower tempos than other popular music. Funk typically consists of a complex percussive groove with rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves that create a "hypnotic" and "danceable" feel. Funk uses the same richly colored extended chords found in bebop jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths, or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths and thirteenths. Funk originated in the mid-1960s, with James Brown's development of a signature groove that emphasized the downbeat—with a heavy emphasis on the first beat of every measure ("The One"), and the application of swung 16th notes and syncopation on all basslines, drum patterns, and guitar riffs—and rock and psychedelia-influenced musicians Sly and the Family Stone and Jimi Hendrix, fostering improvisation in funk. Other musical groups, including Kool and the Gang, Earth, Wind & Fire, Chic, B.T. Express, Loose Ends, Shalamar, The S.O.S. Band, Slave, The Whispers, Cameo, and the Bar-Kays began to adopt and develop Brown's innovations during the 1970s and adding R&B essences to the genre from the early 1970s, while others like Parliament-Funkadelic and Ohio Players followed Hendrix's path. Funk derivatives include avant-funk, an avant-garde strain of funk; boogie, a hybrid of electronic music and funk; funk metal, a mix of funk and metal; G-funk, a mix of gangsta rap and funk; Timba, a form of funky Cuban dance music; and funk jam. It is also the main influence of Washington go-go, a funk sub-genre. Funk samples and breakbeats have been used extensively in hip hop and electronic dance music.

ChatGPT

  1. funk

    Funk is a music genre originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s characterized by a groove or a repeated musical rhythm, "a strong bass line often played by an electric bassist and drum part played by a drummer". It incorporates elements of various genres like soul music, R&B, jazz, and blues. It focuses on complex rhythmic patterns, danceable beats, and often features horn sections and prominent basslines. Notable funk musicians include James Brown, P-Funk, Sly and the Family Stone, and others. The term can also be used more generally to refer to a style, or an attitude, known for being unconventional, expressive or eccentric.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Funknoun

    an offensive smell; a stench

  2. Funkverb

    to envelop with an offensive smell or smoke

  3. Funkverb

    to emit an offensive smell; to stink

  4. Funkverb

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

  5. Funknoun

    alt. of Funking

  6. Etymology: [OE. funke a little fire; akin to Prov. E. funk touchwood, G. funke spark, and perh. to Goth. fn fire.]

Wikidata

  1. Funk

    Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and R&B. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground. Funk songs are often based on an extended vamp on a single chord, distinguishing it from R&B and soul songs, which are built on chord progressions. Like much African-inspired music, funk typically consists of a complex groove with rhythm instruments such as electric guitar, electric bass, Hammond organ, and drums playing interlocking rhythms. Funk bands sometimes have a horn section of several saxophones, trumpets, and in some cases, a trombone, which plays rhythmic "hits". Many of the most famous bands in the genre also played disco and soul extensively. Funk samples have been used extensively in genres including hip hop, house music, and drum and bass. It is also the main influence of go-go, a subgenre associated with funk.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Funk

    fungk, n. (coll.) abject terror or fright.—v.i. and v.t. to shrink through fear: to shirk.—adj. Funk′y.

  2. Funk

    fungk, n. touchwood: a spark. [Cf. Dut. vonk.]

  3. Funk

    fungk, v.t. to stifle with smoke. [Ety. dub.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. funk

    Touch-wood. Also nervousness, cowardice, or being frightened.--To funk. To blow the smoke of tobacco.

Rap Dictionary

  1. funkadjective

    Malodorous.

  2. funkadjective

    The essence of being, as in faking the funk.

  3. funkadjective

    Type of music made famous by African Americans in the 70's or so that derives from jazz, blues, and soul and is characterized by a heavy rhythmic bass and backbeat. On the Steve Harvey show his character Mr Hightower uses references to this type of music in a song "When the funk hit the fan all the people wanna dance." 4)Sometimes referred to old-school type rap/hip-hop. 5)Also known as heroin; funkytown

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  2. FUNK

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FUNK

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Funk is ranked #1459 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Funk surname appeared 24,419 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 8 would have the surname Funk.

    95% or 23,208 total occurrences were White.
    2% or 503 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.4% or 342 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.8% or 200 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.3% or 93 total occurrences were Black.
    0.2% or 71 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of FUNK in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of FUNK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of FUNK in a Sentence

  1. Rick Hutcheon:

    There are so many things overhanging the market right now, we've got an OPEC meeting, we've got Greece, we've got economic reports coming out, you name it, we're just stuck in this funk right now until we get some clarity as to where any of these issues are going to fall out.

  2. Julius Randle:

    This was a weird, weird game for us, we started off slow, worked our way out of it and was up at the half. The third and fourth quarter was a little bit of a funk. I don’t even know what happened. The ball stuck a little bit.

  3. Jeffrey Clayton:

    They should stick to, Kellen Funk know, cases where typically we see problems with indigent parties getting ensnared in the system, and that’s those low-level misdemeanor cases.

  4. Allie Funk:

    It [ fake news rhetoric ] has emboldened authoritarians, who are capable of taking even more brutal action against domestic opponents than President Trump can in the Allie Funk.

  5. Wally Funk:

    I got ahold of NASA four times, and said' I want to become an astronaut,' but nobody would take me, i didn't think I would ever get to go up. Nothing has ever gotten in my way. They say,' Wally Funk, you're a girl, you can't do that.' I said,' Guess what, doesn't matter what you are, you can still do Wally Funk if you want to do Wally Funk,' and I like to do things that nobody's ever done before.

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