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funk-hole slang.
[f. funk n.3]
A place of safety into which one can retreat; esp. in war, as a dug-out. Also transf. and fig., e.g. an employment which is used as a pretext for evading military service.
1900Daily News 20 Nov. 3/2 The Funk Holes which the besieged residents had mined in the river bank. 1914Daily Mail 4 Dec. 8/3, I am sitting in my ‘funk hole’ lined with straw. 1918W. J. Locke Rough Road xx. 245 ‘J. M. T. and I have looked Death in the face many a time—and really he's a poor raw-head and bloody-bones sort of Bogey; don't you think so, old chap?’ ‘It all depends on whether you've got a funk-hole handy.’ 1920Blackw. Mag. May 608/1 Grain-pits that afford excellent ready-made funk-holes. 1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment xiv. 188 Some of our higher commanders would use their A.D.C. rooms as funk-holes to shelter..their distant cousin the marquis. 1928Sunday Dispatch 20 Sept. 2/2 Jim might have stayed! A few hours away from the office wouldn't matter. Lovely funk-holes, offices! 1932‘A. Bridge’ Peking Picnic v. 48 This place was one of her favourite funk-holes. 1946R. Campbell Talking Bronco 15 To jobs in ministries they'll fly, And funk-holes in the B.B.C. 1959J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. ix. 219 Deep, dark caves were never occupied except very occasionally as refuges or ‘funk holes’. |