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▪ I. funky, a.1|ˈfʌŋkɪ|
[f. funk n.3 + -y1.]
In a state of ‘funk’, frightened, nervous, timid.
1837Dickens Pickw. [The nervous junior counsel in Bardell v. Pickwick is named ‘Mr. Phunky’.] 1845S. Naylor Reynard 46, I do feel somewhat funky. 1871G. Meredith H. Richmond lii. (1889) 501 If he did not give up to you like a funky traveller to a highwayman.
Hence ˈfunkiness.
1896Punch 22 Aug. 88/2, I subdued my native funkiness so far as to make the revolution of the great wheel.
▪ II. funky, a.2 Sc.|ˈfʌŋkɪ|
[f. funk n.4]
‘Given to kick, as a horse’ (Ogilvie Supp. 1855).
▪ III. funky, a.3|ˈfʌŋkɪ|
[f. funk n.2 + -y1.]
1. Mouldy, old, musty; smelling strong or bad. Now U.S. dial.
1784Twamley Dairying 11 [Faults in Cheese] Sweet or Funkey Cheese. Ibid. 30 A means of preventing Sweet, or Funkey Cheese. 1906Dialect Notes III. 118 This butter's funky. 1909Ibid. 396 This room smells funky. 1929T. Wolfe Look Homeward iv. 41 [A Negress's] strong smell, black and funky. a1938― Web & Rock (1947) 25 Breathe in the funky nigger stench. 1962J. Baldwin Another Country (1963) i. i. 12 They knew..why his hair was nappy, his armpits funky.
2. Of jazz or similar music: down-to-earth and uncomplicated; emotional; having the qualities of the blues. Also in extended use: ‘in’, ‘swinging’, fashionable. slang (orig. U.S.).
1954Time 8 Nov. 42 Funky, authentic, swinging. 1957[see bop n.2]. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene vi. 119 Critics are on the search for something a little more like the old, original, passion-laden blues: the trade-name which has been suggested for it is ‘funky’ (literally: ‘smelly’, i.e. symbolising the return from the upper atmosphere to physical, down-to-earth, reality). 1960Melody Maker 31 Dec., Horace [Silver] recalls that the use of the word funk in the modern sense goes back to his composition ‘Opus de Funk’. ‘When you put a lot of little blues inflections in the solos, people would say you were really funky, by which they just mean bluesy, and that is how I came up with the title. So the critics started to talk about me as funky.’ 1962John o' London's 10 May 457/1 He has a strong blues feeling and he doesn't overdo the fashionable ‘funky’ business. 1969Sat. Rev. 27 Sept. 25/1 You can't hype kids into buying things they don't want, even with people in funky clothes soft-selling them. 1970Sunday Times 8 Feb. 15/1 John and Yoko: a life-style that's getting funkier all the time. 1971Frendz 21 May 17/1 Brown Sugar and Bitch are Jagger at his foxy, dirty, funky best.
Add: Hence (in sense 2) ˈfunkily adv.; ˈfunkiness n.2
1968Rat 3 May 22/1 He sat at the electric organ,..breaking into incredible funkiness with the whole orchestra for the refrain. 1976Sounds 11 Dec. 28/6 For all its embarrassingly prosaic lyric, ‘Alaskan Pipeline’ stomps funkily along with Gladys wailing up a storm over a chunky groove. 1986Washington Post 17 Aug. e9/2 Many of the buildings retain an air of faded funkiness, and some of the back streets are best avoided at night. 1990N.Y. Newsday 21 Mar. iii. 2/1 The place is cozy and funkily romantic, just the spot for a tryst. |