Noun
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an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul
has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
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United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
- casimir funk -
a state of nervous depression
"he was in a funk"
- blue funk
Verb
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draw back, as with fear or pain
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"