From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
funk
n 1: a state of nervous depression; "he was in a funk" [syn:
funk, blue funk]
2: 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) [syn: Funk, Casimir Funk]
3: an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has
a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
v 1: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they
showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch,
squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil,
quail]