Main entry: funk
Definition: an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
Main entry: Funk, Casimir Funk
Definition: 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)
Definition: a state of nervous depression
Usage: he was in a funk
Main entry: cringe, wince, squinch, shrink, flinch, funk, quail, recoil
Definition: draw back, as with fear or pain
Usage: she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf