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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" [syn: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented]
2: (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues [syn: funky, low-down]
3: stylish and modern in an unconventional way; "she likes funky clothes"; "we did it all in black and white in a very funky sixties style"
4: in a state of cowardly fright

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1845 being in a funk ; panicky II. adjective (funkier; -est) Etymology: funk offensive odor Date: 1784 1. having an offensive odor ; foul 2. having an earthy unsophisticated style and feeling; especially having the style and feeling of older black American music (as blues or gospel) or of funk <a slick, heavy beat that is unmistakably contemporary and irresistibly funky — Jay Cocks> 3. a. odd or quaint in appearance or feeling b. lacking style or taste c. unconventionally stylish ; hip • funkily adverb • funkiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. adj. (funkier, funkiest) sl. 1 (esp. of jazz or rock music) earthy, bluesy, with a heavy rhythmical beat. 2 fashionable. 3 US having a strong smell. Derivatives: funkily adv. funkiness n. 2. adj. (funkier, funkiest) sl. 1 terrified. 2 cowardly.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Funky Funk"y, a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking. [Colloq. Eng.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(funkier, funkiest) 1. Funky jazz, blues, or pop music has a very strong, repeated bass part. It's a funky sort of rhythm. ADJ 2. If you describe something or someone as funky, you like them because they are unconventional or unusual. (mainly AM INFORMAL) It had a certain funky charm, I guess, but it wasn't much of a place to raise a kid. ADJ [approval]

Moby Thesaurus

afraid, atrabiliar, atrabilious, bad, bad-smelling, blue, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, daunted, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, fecal, fetid, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funking, fusty, gamy, graveolent, henhearted, high, ill-smelling, intimidated, lily-livered, malodorous, melancholic, melancholy, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, moldy, mousy, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, olid, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pensive, pigeonhearted, putrid, rabbity, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, sissified, sissy, smellful, smelling, smelly, soft, stale, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, timid, timorous, tristful, unmanly, unmanned, vile, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, wistful, yellow