funk2 (fungk)

t. [ With what strong smoke, and with his stronger breath, He funks Basket i a and her son to death. King , The Furmetary, iii. A cigar reeked in the left-hand corner of the mouth of one, and in the right-hand corner of the mouth of the other; - an arrangement happily adapted for the escape of the noxious fumes up the chimney, without that unmerciful funking each other which a le scientific disposition of the weed would have induced. Barham, In golds by Legends, I. 39. funk3 (fungk), v. i. [E. dial. and Sc.; origin not certain; usually a ociated with funk1, but the connection is not obvious. Prob. OLG.; cf. OFlem. fonck, a commotion, disturbance, agitation, tumult; in de fonck zijn, be disturbed or agitated, be in agitation (Kilian).] To become afraid; shrink through fear; quail. "He's funking ; go in, Williams!" "Catch him up!" "Finish him off!" scream the small boys. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 5. To funk out, to back out in a cowardly manner. To funk right out o' p'lit'cal strife aint thought to be the thing. Lowell , Biglow Papers, 1st ser., ix.