| 单词 | blue funk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue funk blue funk n. slang (a) a state of extreme nervousness or dread (cf. funk n.4 1); (b) originally North American depression or despair (cf. funk n.5 2); a mental state characterized by this. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [noun] > nervousness > extreme nervousness or dread blue fear1801 blue funk1854 1854 Phrenologist's Daughter xvii. 295 Stapleton was in a blue funk. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ii. 257 If I was going to be flogged next minute, I should be in a blue funk. 1871 J. C. Maxwell in L. Campbell & W. Garnett Life J. C. Maxwell (1882) xii. 382 Certainly χλωρὸν δέος is the Homeric for a blue funk. 1936 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Ascent of F6 i. ii. 24 We're under-garrisoned and under-policed and..we're in a blue funk that the Ostnians will come over the frontier. 1958 Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 14 Feb. 4/6 A Michigan reader reports that last winter..she found herself in a long period of low energy and ‘blue funk’... It seems evident that ‘blue funk’ in this instance means merely low in spirit, gloomy, melancholy, pensive, moody. 2003 S. Brett Murder in Museum xxxviii. 319 Stories he had heard from the Front put the boy into such a blue funk that he ran away. 2006 W. McLaughlin Forest under my Fingernails 130 I'm surprised by the sting of sudden solitude. While getting ready for bed, I sink into a blue funk. < as lemmas |
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