† funkern.1
Obsolete. rare.
A person who smokes tobacco, esp. one who annoys others with tobacco smoke.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [noun] > smoker
tobacchian1597
tobacco-taker1599
tobacconist1600
puffer1615
tobacco-fellow1616
tobacconer1616
smoker1617
whiffler1617
fume-gallant1621
whiffera1627
funker1691
tobacco-smoker1848
tobacconalian1854
nicotian1872
tobaccophil1882
coffin dodger1891
tobaccoite1898
tobacco-whiffer-
1691 W. Mountfort Greenwich-Park i. i. 3 Think on't, thou Associate of Drunkards, eternal Tobacco Funker.
a1731 E. Ward Compl. Acct. Remarkable Clubs & Societies (1745) 278 They..made it their Business..to haunt those Coffee-Houses where they were unknown, that they might slily puff out their Clouds instead of Whiffs, among other Funkers in the public Room.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
funkern.2
/ˈfʌŋkə/, U.S. /ˈfəŋkər/, Scottish English /ˈfʌŋkər/ Scottish. Now rare.
A horse, donkey, etc., that is prone to kicking. Also in extended use: a recalcitrant person. Sc. National Dict. (at Fung) records the word as still in use in Banffshire in 1943.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the foot > kicking > one who or that which
wincerc1440
spurner1555
kicker1574
funker1825
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Dinna buy that beast, she's a funker.
1893 J. Crawford Some bits o' Sc. Verses 26 A thrawn auld crabbit loon was he, A kittle funker, sly an' croose.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 140 Funker, a horse (or cow) that ‘flings’ or kicks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
funkern.3
/ˈfʌŋkə/, U.S. /ˈfəŋkər/ A person who funks (funk v.3); a coward; Horse Riding a rider who tends to shy at or avoid a jump, fence, etc. hard funker n. a rider who is frightened of jumping but who rides at a jump, fence, etc., in a plucky, fearless, or even reckless manner.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > undutifulness > undutiful person > [noun] > avoiding
shrinker1554
shirker1799
shirk1818
funker1826
gold brick1905
the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > cowering or blenching > one who cowers or blenches
funker1826
blencher1873
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > shrinking or recoiling > one who
flincher1598
starter?1614
blanchera1659
funker1826
blencher1873
1826 Bell's Life in London 5 Mar. 78/2 O'Neal is not only ‘no funker’; but means to uphold that manly character.
1864 C. Clarke Box for Season II. 115 Martyr and Dickenson are both funkers.
1875 G. J. Whyte-Melville Riding Recoll. (1879) iv. 64 Of all riders ‘the hard funker’ is the most unmerciful to his beast; at every turn he uses his spurs cruelly, not because he is hard, but because he funks.
1926 Country Life 27 Nov. 813/2 He probably goes far too fast at the fences—a sure sign of nerves... And yet he takes it on, gallant hard funker as he is. It is nerves, pure and simple, which makes him do it.
1927 Wingham (Austral.) Chron. 9 Sept. Don't be a funker, don't be a fool, Courage with caution is wisdom's rule.
1987 M. Amis Einstein's Monsters 42 I was enough of a peacenik, optimist and funker to take the other view.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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