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noun fʌŋkfəŋk British informal 1A state of great fear or panic. are you in a blue funk about running out of things to say? Example sentencesExamples - Sometimes it requires a crisis to sort out those fitted for leadership from their confreres inclined to dash around in a blind funk.
- Job seekers anxious about seeing the freshest Craigslist posts can subscribe to a feed instead of hitting reload for hours in a paranoid funk.
- A freak car accident leaves Marie-Josée Croze in an existential funk.
- Far from implementing smart strategies to fight terror, this administration has only succeeded in scaring the public and pushed the country into an uncharacteristic funk.
- I like words and although I have no idea where it came from, ‘blue funk’ seems an apposite description of not only how I have felt but also how I have been.
- So when I was instructed to put my haggling skills to work and go in search of some bargains in York city centre I was in a blind funk.
- I may even get better at answering mails straight away rather than letting them mount up until I drop into a blue funk about the backlog.
- I was asked the other day during an interview what I do personally when I get into a blue funk.
- He lies in an existential funk trying to make sense of it all.
- For example, I can say, Sushila has been in such a blue funk that she refuses to even step out of the house.
- Who, or what, got you into the funk in the first place?
Synonyms panic, state of fear, fluster informal cold sweat, flap, state, tizzy, tizz, tiz-woz, dither, stew British informal blue funk North American informal twit - 1.1North American A state of depression.
I sat absorbed in my own blue funk Example sentencesExamples - At the sound of his son's name, Andrew snapped out of his funk and slowly swung his other foot to the ground.
- She quickly snapped out of her funk, and got a good look at the boy before her.
- Gareth shook out of his funk from watching Jude sit down and automatically shook his hand.
- What's more, composure is dynamic throughout a season, so that players who start to slump will have a tough time getting out of their funk.
- I just can't seem to focus on things that might get me out of my funk - such as getting the remortgage underway and finalised.
- Nothing in particular happened to cheer me up - I just came out of my funk.
- Thorn almost thought that the fact that she was arguing with him was a good sign, meaning that she was, at least a little, out of her funk.
- The messages helped snap Pottruck out of his funk.
- That financial support, albeit brief, shook Shafer out of his funk.
- August historically is his best month, and he showed signs of snapping out of his funk before the break, hitting with authority and showing patience.
- Our Prime Minister has come out of his funk, and has some real serious plans for this country.
- Back at Harlem hospital, Sugar was snapping out of her funk.
- It may only serve to get you out of your funk and into the gym - but hey, that's half the battle of any exercise program.
- She brings him out of his funk, drags him out dancing, and gives him a new lease of life.
- But if savers and builders are sufficiently scared and sufficiently depressed, even big tax cuts may not be enough to bring them out of their funk.
- Meeting people like this is exciting and scary, but it might be just what you need to jolt yourself out of your funk.
- I thought I got depressed, but even in a depressed funk, my lowest grade would be at least a ten!
- The metallic scritch of a key in the lock jolted me out of my funk.
- When Benard hits more to left field, you'll know he's out of his funk.
- Many people assume comfort foods are eaten when a person is in a funk, depressed, bored, or lonely.
Synonyms depression informal the dumps, the doldrums, low North American informal blue funk
2dated A coward. I sit shuddering, too much of a funk to fight
verb fʌŋkfəŋk [with object]British informal Avoid (something) out of fear. I could have seen him this morning but I funked it Example sentencesExamples - The chief executive and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic funked a London trip ‘‘due to the international situation’.
- It would have made clear that this administration had a sense of historic purpose and that it was not going to funk the most important single issue facing Britain in the new millennium.
- The attempt then to portray Al Gore, who rejected the subterfuge, as the one who was funking national debates was farcical.
- Astonishingly one of the judges, Tom Doorley, funked both drisheen and tripe - refusing to eat either.
- It was interesting to see how Hollywood coped with this theme, and how director Sydney Pollack tiptoed towards reality but funked it in the end.
- But we have had many opportunities to display a more radical voice and we have funked them.
- If he funks this one then his government will unravel and we will be back to John Major, the Exchange Rate Mechanism and Maastricht.
- By a donnish performance, more in the style of a school of philosophy than of an economics department, Letwin proved the case for tax cuts, then forged an intellectual alibi for funking its implementation.
- I believe that we in western Europe have a historic choice in the next few years, and that we can be visionary, or we can funk it.
- But, as Limerick City Council, Limerick County Council and countless others are allowed sink so low that they cannot even empty the bins, Leinster House funks the fundamental issue.
- Because otherwise you would have funked it, you would have been seen to have been the person, the country, that precipitated it and then walked away from it.
- Given the blather SFO dispenses about ‘modern’ and ‘contemporary’ solutions to the stodginess of opera, how disappointing is it when an apotheosis, written into the music, is funked by the production team?
- Hugh has been through Alcoholics Anonymous and has funked it.
- The assembled leaders seem certain to funk both challenges.
- This legislative programme didn't just funk the big issues - hospital waiting times, proportional representation, class sizes and family law reform - it funked the little issues as well.
- Green spokesman Dan Boyle said the Government had funked unfair tax reliefs and failed to tackle the Savage 16 welfare cuts.
- The decision by Labour to funk the presidential election underlines that party's frivolity.
Synonyms avoid, evade, dodge, escape from, run away from, baulk at, flinch from wuss out informal chicken out of, duck, wriggle out of, cop out of, get out of
Origin Mid 18th century (first recorded as Oxford University slang): perhaps from funk2 in the slang sense 'tobacco smoke', or from obsolete Flemish fonck 'disturbance, agitation'. People started using funk and funky in musical contexts during the 1950s: before that, funky was a black English expression that meant ‘worthless, bad’, which reversed its meaning in the same way as bad and wicked to mean ‘excellent’. In the early 17th century, though, funk meant ‘a musty smell’. It may come from French dialect funkier ‘blow smoke on’, which was based on Latin fumus ‘smoke’ (the root of fumigate). Funk meaning ‘a state of panic or anxiety’ was Oxford University slang in the mid 18th century, in the phrase in a blue funk. It could refer to the slang sense of funk as ‘tobacco smoke’, or it could be from an old Flemish word fonck, ‘disturbance, agitation’.
Rhymes bunk, chunk, clunk, drunk, dunk, flunk, gunk, hunk, Monck, monk, plunk, shrunk, skunk, slunk, stunk, sunk, thunk, trunk noun fʌŋkfəŋk 1mass noun A style of popular dance music of US black origin, based on elements of blues and soul and having a strong rhythm that typically accentuates the first beat in the bar. a mixture of punk and funk as modifier a funk bass line Example sentencesExamples - On their first album, the Singers blended soul, funk, jazz and rock with lightweight dance beats, courtesy of Fila Brasilia.
- You get in free before midnight and each night offers a musical difference: jazz, soul, funk or hip-hop, with Latino beats on Sundays.
- Many artists could list soul, funk, jazz, hip hop and r 'n' b as influences, but few could put such a personal and individual stamp on their sound.
- The North Queensland based group are a newly-formed but very professional outfit who fuse elements of funk and reggae with hip hop and groovy rhythms.
- It combines elements of hip-hop, reggae, funk, punk rock and even traditional Irish folk music.
- They're pushing out rather typical rock music with hints of hip-hop and funk, elements that are too subtle to redefine the end result.
- The rising star has been cooking up quite a storm of late with her laid-back jazz style and blend of funk, soul, hip-hop, Latin and deep house.
- Rich, rhythmical patterns and grooves represent roots in African culture, or to be more exact, Afro-American music in the realm of jazz, soul and funk.
- A sample of both albums, and soul, jazz, funk, and of course, blues genres covered, current fans were satisfied and likely new fans gained, as a night of refreshing and heartfelt ideas came to an end.
- The result is an effort that encompasses a multitude of styles, from funk and soul to stirring ballads constructed around strong melodies.
- These guys are laying down a night of Afro-Latin jazz, funk and soul rhythms for the people, and you're invited!
- Just like hip hop, it's all influenced by funk, jazz and soul.
- It makes for quite an eclectic mix, with elements of soul, funk, gospel and Rasta thrown into the hip-hop mix.
- Theirs is a diverse and unlikely mix of influences, including jazz, funk, reggae and punk rock, along with Belgian brass band music, which they combine with various world music elements.
- Yet, as the soundscapes remain tightly held together, Herren processes anything from jazz, funk or soul to dirty beats and glitches into one gigantic festival of sounds and atmospheres.
- Elsewhere, Jon mixes up elements of dub, jazz and ambient music into the requisite funk beats.
- Many consider him the father of Afrobeat, that is the combination of Nigerian high-life and Yoruba rhythms with funk, soul and jazz.
- Ploughing a wide furrow, this record draws on a history of influences from hip hop, funk, soul, and big beat.
- During that time, Madlib has expanded his scope with an extensive list of pseudonyms and collaborations that explore all forms of jazz, dub, soul, funk and psychedelia.
- At his best, he carves and splices jazz, R&B and funk elements into abstract soundscapes well-suited for a film noir soundtrack.
2North American dated, informal in singular A strong musty smell of sweat or tobacco. our sweat mingles, but the funk makes my stomach dizzy mass noun he prowled his office trailing the telltale odour of funk Example sentencesExamples - You gotta stick with me on this, though - I promise, the end result is worth the funk, and the smell goes away once it's been prepared.
- We all smelled an odiferous funk coming from Viktor.
- From a subtle funk to a full-on stank, it's an absolute guarantee that something, somewhere within fifty feet of where you live, stinks to high heaven.
- Some people smelled like funk because there was no support system for hygiene.
- It's not sweat or the funk from the equipment; it's a strange smell that's hard to describe.
verb fʌŋkfəŋk [with object]funk something upGive music elements of funk. we're bringing back the old Motown sound and funking it up Example sentencesExamples - Pine Grove Blues - A tune by Nathan Abshire which we took and funked it up a bit.
- As for formals, I'd suggest bringing a few cocktail dresses and some accessories to funk them up a bit.
- Rapper Rob B and the band funked it up through a beats and bass driven set and got the audience well into and out of it.
- Upping the tempo and controlling the beat, Mr. Kuts treats us to a little old skool electro flavour with What's Up At The Brotherfront before funking it up with some house with Mousse T's Fire.
- Still, there is not enough variety in the style of the songs - funk it up a bit.
- Apparently, he also has a knack for picking songs that seem random at first, and funking them up into something big-beat, horn-blasting, soulful, and torally listenable.
- The band funks it up with varying shuffle drum backbeats, throbbing bass lines, a wailing saxophone and feathery keyboard treatments.
- That's one of the reasons that I like to choose stylish clothes that are relatively inexpensive and then funk them up with accessories and an eye for geometry.
- It's ideal for jazz players and, if you're so inclined, funking it up with a wah pedal.
- At heart we are a funk rock band. we do our own versions of some classic songs basically funking them up and messing with them, as well as our own originals.
- And the CD funks it up with Bootsy Collins of Parliment and the Funkadelics.
- While the first CD is incredibly mellow, with Athlete, Phoenix and Snow Patrol, the second CD funks it up a bit.
- With the exception of the pop ballad features for Miles like ‘Human Nature’, this band plays hard throughout and usually funks it up pretty good also.
- He successfully croons Rose Royce's Wishing On A Star and funks it up on Sister Sledge's Thinking Of You.
- While many proceeded to funk it up, tone it down or plug it in, it became an inspiration for musicians like Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler and Peter Brotzmann.
- Tony Hall funks it up big time with Trey starting to really get into it on Tell Me Something Good.
- The song uses the hypnotic-electronic beat of Soft Cell's 80s hit ‘Tainted Love’ as its base rhythm but definitely funks it up in comparison to the original.
- Dave Kent funks it up even more with his driving house and breakbeat remix, adding analogue bass and disco sounds.
- Oh, I wanna see this guy, I wanna hear this music live, I wanna see if they're gonna remix it or funk it up differently when I see them.
- Bernie is the mastermind behind it all, effortlessly floating from style to style, showing his skill at the most delicate of musical forms, and then funking it up like a maniac.
- Influenced by electro-clash, disco and garage, Simon and Felix have taken the best bits of the music scene at the moment and funked them up as far as they can go.
- They take old fashioned designs and funk them up with crazy colours and images of insects.
- Serve healthy and refreshing iced teas instead of fizzy drinks, and funk them up with colourful straws.
- So when I would approach record companies, I don't think they could see what I was talking about - that I was gonna funk them up, for lack of a better word.
- In stripped down form, it's a great listen but the remash by Money Mark succeeds in funking things up considerably and closes the album in strong fashion.
- Whether you want a traditional curled style or want to funk it up with spikes, tousles or free form hair tails you will be right in style.
- Stick to classic clothes - jeans and a white T-shirt have always been cool, baby - and then just funk them up with, say, a trendy belt.
- If you want to re-cycle, but don't want all those bottles, cans, newspapers and the rest hanging around… buy some storage boxes, or even better make some, funk them up (you could use some of that paint leftover in the bottom of tins in the cellar or old wrapping paper perhaps), label them and stack them, or have them side by side, in the kitchen or other appropriate room.
Origin Early 17th century (in the sense 'musty smell'): perhaps from French dialect funkier 'blow smoke on', based on Latin fumus 'smoke'. nounfəNGkfəŋk informal 1North American in singular A state of depression. I sat absorbed in my own blue funk Example sentencesExamples - The messages helped snap Pottruck out of his funk.
- The metallic scritch of a key in the lock jolted me out of my funk.
- It may only serve to get you out of your funk and into the gym - but hey, that's half the battle of any exercise program.
- Meeting people like this is exciting and scary, but it might be just what you need to jolt yourself out of your funk.
- August historically is his best month, and he showed signs of snapping out of his funk before the break, hitting with authority and showing patience.
- Back at Harlem hospital, Sugar was snapping out of her funk.
- Many people assume comfort foods are eaten when a person is in a funk, depressed, bored, or lonely.
- When Benard hits more to left field, you'll know he's out of his funk.
- Nothing in particular happened to cheer me up - I just came out of my funk.
- Gareth shook out of his funk from watching Jude sit down and automatically shook his hand.
- I thought I got depressed, but even in a depressed funk, my lowest grade would be at least a ten!
- What's more, composure is dynamic throughout a season, so that players who start to slump will have a tough time getting out of their funk.
- But if savers and builders are sufficiently scared and sufficiently depressed, even big tax cuts may not be enough to bring them out of their funk.
- Our Prime Minister has come out of his funk, and has some real serious plans for this country.
- That financial support, albeit brief, shook Shafer out of his funk.
- She brings him out of his funk, drags him out dancing, and gives him a new lease of life.
- Thorn almost thought that the fact that she was arguing with him was a good sign, meaning that she was, at least a little, out of her funk.
- She quickly snapped out of her funk, and got a good look at the boy before her.
- I just can't seem to focus on things that might get me out of my funk - such as getting the remortgage underway and finalised.
- At the sound of his son's name, Andrew snapped out of his funk and slowly swung his other foot to the ground.
- 1.1British A state of great fear or panic.
are you in a blue funk about running out of things to say? Example sentencesExamples - Job seekers anxious about seeing the freshest Craigslist posts can subscribe to a feed instead of hitting reload for hours in a paranoid funk.
- For example, I can say, Sushila has been in such a blue funk that she refuses to even step out of the house.
- Who, or what, got you into the funk in the first place?
- I like words and although I have no idea where it came from, ‘blue funk’ seems an apposite description of not only how I have felt but also how I have been.
- Sometimes it requires a crisis to sort out those fitted for leadership from their confreres inclined to dash around in a blind funk.
- I was asked the other day during an interview what I do personally when I get into a blue funk.
- A freak car accident leaves Marie-Josée Croze in an existential funk.
- I may even get better at answering mails straight away rather than letting them mount up until I drop into a blue funk about the backlog.
- So when I was instructed to put my haggling skills to work and go in search of some bargains in York city centre I was in a blind funk.
- Far from implementing smart strategies to fight terror, this administration has only succeeded in scaring the public and pushed the country into an uncharacteristic funk.
- He lies in an existential funk trying to make sense of it all.
Synonyms panic, state of fear, fluster
verbfəNGkfəŋk [with object]British informal Avoid (a task or thing) out of fear. I could have seen him this morning but I funked it Example sentencesExamples - The attempt then to portray Al Gore, who rejected the subterfuge, as the one who was funking national debates was farcical.
- Because otherwise you would have funked it, you would have been seen to have been the person, the country, that precipitated it and then walked away from it.
- The assembled leaders seem certain to funk both challenges.
- By a donnish performance, more in the style of a school of philosophy than of an economics department, Letwin proved the case for tax cuts, then forged an intellectual alibi for funking its implementation.
- Astonishingly one of the judges, Tom Doorley, funked both drisheen and tripe - refusing to eat either.
- Hugh has been through Alcoholics Anonymous and has funked it.
- This legislative programme didn't just funk the big issues - hospital waiting times, proportional representation, class sizes and family law reform - it funked the little issues as well.
- I believe that we in western Europe have a historic choice in the next few years, and that we can be visionary, or we can funk it.
- But we have had many opportunities to display a more radical voice and we have funked them.
- But, as Limerick City Council, Limerick County Council and countless others are allowed sink so low that they cannot even empty the bins, Leinster House funks the fundamental issue.
- It would have made clear that this administration had a sense of historic purpose and that it was not going to funk the most important single issue facing Britain in the new millennium.
- Green spokesman Dan Boyle said the Government had funked unfair tax reliefs and failed to tackle the Savage 16 welfare cuts.
- The decision by Labour to funk the presidential election underlines that party's frivolity.
- If he funks this one then his government will unravel and we will be back to John Major, the Exchange Rate Mechanism and Maastricht.
- Given the blather SFO dispenses about ‘modern’ and ‘contemporary’ solutions to the stodginess of opera, how disappointing is it when an apotheosis, written into the music, is funked by the production team?
- It was interesting to see how Hollywood coped with this theme, and how director Sydney Pollack tiptoed towards reality but funked it in the end.
- The chief executive and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic funked a London trip ‘‘due to the international situation’.
Synonyms avoid, evade, dodge, escape from, run away from, baulk at, flinch from
Origin Mid 18th century (first recorded as Oxford University slang): perhaps from funk in the slang sense ‘tobacco smoke’, or from obsolete Flemish fonck ‘disturbance, agitation’. nounfəNGkfəŋk 1A style of popular dance music of US black origin, based on elements of blues and soul and having a strong rhythm that typically accentuates the first beat in the bar. a mixture of punk and funk as modifier a funk bass line Example sentencesExamples - At his best, he carves and splices jazz, R&B and funk elements into abstract soundscapes well-suited for a film noir soundtrack.
- On their first album, the Singers blended soul, funk, jazz and rock with lightweight dance beats, courtesy of Fila Brasilia.
- These guys are laying down a night of Afro-Latin jazz, funk and soul rhythms for the people, and you're invited!
- Just like hip hop, it's all influenced by funk, jazz and soul.
- Ploughing a wide furrow, this record draws on a history of influences from hip hop, funk, soul, and big beat.
- Many artists could list soul, funk, jazz, hip hop and r 'n' b as influences, but few could put such a personal and individual stamp on their sound.
- Rich, rhythmical patterns and grooves represent roots in African culture, or to be more exact, Afro-American music in the realm of jazz, soul and funk.
- It combines elements of hip-hop, reggae, funk, punk rock and even traditional Irish folk music.
- A sample of both albums, and soul, jazz, funk, and of course, blues genres covered, current fans were satisfied and likely new fans gained, as a night of refreshing and heartfelt ideas came to an end.
- The rising star has been cooking up quite a storm of late with her laid-back jazz style and blend of funk, soul, hip-hop, Latin and deep house.
- The North Queensland based group are a newly-formed but very professional outfit who fuse elements of funk and reggae with hip hop and groovy rhythms.
- Elsewhere, Jon mixes up elements of dub, jazz and ambient music into the requisite funk beats.
- Many consider him the father of Afrobeat, that is the combination of Nigerian high-life and Yoruba rhythms with funk, soul and jazz.
- During that time, Madlib has expanded his scope with an extensive list of pseudonyms and collaborations that explore all forms of jazz, dub, soul, funk and psychedelia.
- They're pushing out rather typical rock music with hints of hip-hop and funk, elements that are too subtle to redefine the end result.
- Theirs is a diverse and unlikely mix of influences, including jazz, funk, reggae and punk rock, along with Belgian brass band music, which they combine with various world music elements.
- You get in free before midnight and each night offers a musical difference: jazz, soul, funk or hip-hop, with Latino beats on Sundays.
- It makes for quite an eclectic mix, with elements of soul, funk, gospel and Rasta thrown into the hip-hop mix.
- The result is an effort that encompasses a multitude of styles, from funk and soul to stirring ballads constructed around strong melodies.
- Yet, as the soundscapes remain tightly held together, Herren processes anything from jazz, funk or soul to dirty beats and glitches into one gigantic festival of sounds and atmospheres.
2North American dated, informal in singular A strong musty smell of sweat or tobacco. our sweat mingles, but the funk makes my stomach dizzy mass noun he prowled his office trailing the telltale odor of funk Example sentencesExamples - It's not sweat or the funk from the equipment; it's a strange smell that's hard to describe.
- From a subtle funk to a full-on stank, it's an absolute guarantee that something, somewhere within fifty feet of where you live, stinks to high heaven.
- You gotta stick with me on this, though - I promise, the end result is worth the funk, and the smell goes away once it's been prepared.
- Some people smelled like funk because there was no support system for hygiene.
- We all smelled an odiferous funk coming from Viktor.
verbfəNGkfəŋk [with object]funk something upGive music elements of funk. we're bringing back the old Motown sound and funking it up Example sentencesExamples - So when I would approach record companies, I don't think they could see what I was talking about - that I was gonna funk them up, for lack of a better word.
- Still, there is not enough variety in the style of the songs - funk it up a bit.
- While the first CD is incredibly mellow, with Athlete, Phoenix and Snow Patrol, the second CD funks it up a bit.
- Dave Kent funks it up even more with his driving house and breakbeat remix, adding analogue bass and disco sounds.
- He successfully croons Rose Royce's Wishing On A Star and funks it up on Sister Sledge's Thinking Of You.
- The band funks it up with varying shuffle drum backbeats, throbbing bass lines, a wailing saxophone and feathery keyboard treatments.
- Whether you want a traditional curled style or want to funk it up with spikes, tousles or free form hair tails you will be right in style.
- Pine Grove Blues - A tune by Nathan Abshire which we took and funked it up a bit.
- It's ideal for jazz players and, if you're so inclined, funking it up with a wah pedal.
- As for formals, I'd suggest bringing a few cocktail dresses and some accessories to funk them up a bit.
- Apparently, he also has a knack for picking songs that seem random at first, and funking them up into something big-beat, horn-blasting, soulful, and torally listenable.
- Upping the tempo and controlling the beat, Mr. Kuts treats us to a little old skool electro flavour with What's Up At The Brotherfront before funking it up with some house with Mousse T's Fire.
- They take old fashioned designs and funk them up with crazy colours and images of insects.
- With the exception of the pop ballad features for Miles like ‘Human Nature’, this band plays hard throughout and usually funks it up pretty good also.
- In stripped down form, it's a great listen but the remash by Money Mark succeeds in funking things up considerably and closes the album in strong fashion.
- That's one of the reasons that I like to choose stylish clothes that are relatively inexpensive and then funk them up with accessories and an eye for geometry.
- Bernie is the mastermind behind it all, effortlessly floating from style to style, showing his skill at the most delicate of musical forms, and then funking it up like a maniac.
- Tony Hall funks it up big time with Trey starting to really get into it on Tell Me Something Good.
- While many proceeded to funk it up, tone it down or plug it in, it became an inspiration for musicians like Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler and Peter Brotzmann.
- The song uses the hypnotic-electronic beat of Soft Cell's 80s hit ‘Tainted Love’ as its base rhythm but definitely funks it up in comparison to the original.
- Oh, I wanna see this guy, I wanna hear this music live, I wanna see if they're gonna remix it or funk it up differently when I see them.
- Influenced by electro-clash, disco and garage, Simon and Felix have taken the best bits of the music scene at the moment and funked them up as far as they can go.
- And the CD funks it up with Bootsy Collins of Parliment and the Funkadelics.
- Stick to classic clothes - jeans and a white T-shirt have always been cool, baby - and then just funk them up with, say, a trendy belt.
- Serve healthy and refreshing iced teas instead of fizzy drinks, and funk them up with colourful straws.
- Rapper Rob B and the band funked it up through a beats and bass driven set and got the audience well into and out of it.
- At heart we are a funk rock band. we do our own versions of some classic songs basically funking them up and messing with them, as well as our own originals.
- If you want to re-cycle, but don't want all those bottles, cans, newspapers and the rest hanging around… buy some storage boxes, or even better make some, funk them up (you could use some of that paint leftover in the bottom of tins in the cellar or old wrapping paper perhaps), label them and stack them, or have them side by side, in the kitchen or other appropriate room.
Origin Early 17th century (in the sense ‘musty smell’): perhaps from French dialect funkier ‘blow smoke on’, based on Latin fumus ‘smoke’. |