Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to funk
Participle: funked
Gerund: funking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | funk |
| you | funk |
| he;she;it | funks |
| we | funk |
| you | funk |
| they | funk |
Perfect
| I | have funked |
| you | have funked |
| he;she;it | has funked |
| we | have funked |
| you | have funked |
| they | have funked |
Past
| I | funked |
| you | funked |
| he;she;it | funked |
| we | funked |
| you | funked |
| they | funked |
Pluperfect
| I | had funked |
| you | had funked |
| he;she;it | had funked |
| we | had funked |
| you | had funked |
| they | had funked |
Future
| I | will funk |
| you | will funk |
| he;she;it | will funk |
| we | will funk |
| you | will funk |
| they | will funk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have funked |
| you | will have funked |
| he;she;it | will have funked |
| we | will have funked |
| you | will have funked |
| they | will have funked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | funk |
| you | funk |
| he;she;it | funk |
| we | funk |
| you | funk |
| they | funk |
Perfect
| I | have funked |
| you | have funked |
| he;she;it | have funked |
| we | have funked |
| you | have funked |
| they | have funked |
Imperfect
| I | funked |
| you | funked |
| he;she;it | funked |
| we | funked |
| you | funked |
| they | funked |
Pluperfect
| I | had funked |
| you | had funked |
| he;she;it | had funked |
| we | had funked |
| you | had funked |
| they | had funked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would funk |
| you | would funk |
| he;she;it | would funk |
| we | would funk |
| you | would funk |
| they | would funk |
Perfect
| I | would have funked |
| you | would have funked |
| he;she;it | would have funked |
| we | would have funked |
| you | would have funked |
| they | would have funked |
Imperative
| you | funk |
| we | Let's funk |
| you | funk |
Verbs conjugated like 'funk'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'funk'
bunk,
dunk,
flunk,
fuck,
fun,
fund,
gunk,
junk,
punk,
bank,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1620, from French dialectal (Norman) funquer, funquier (“to smoke, reek”), from Old Northern French fungier (“to smoke”), from Vulgar Latin fūmicāre, alteration of Latin fūmigāre (“to smoke, fumigate”). Related to French dialect funkière (“smoke”). More at fumigate. See: Latin '
fumigo'.
Sample Sentences
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He funks Basketia and her son to death [c. 1709, William King, The Furmentary:]
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Funking a cobbler – that is, blowing smoke into his stall; smoking cigars at divans and club houses; […] [2012, M. C. Beaton, Diana the Huntress:]
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From the earliest part of this decade when he funked in relative obscurity to his days as a superstar with the release of his Batman soundtrack last summer, I could almost always count on Prince. [1989 December 17, Christopher Wittke, “On The Edge In The '80s”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 9:]
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Funk this!
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Snow bunny, I pledge to funk you baby / You sexy lady, my only temptation […] Oh, I just want to funk you [2017, Bootsy Collins, “Snow Bunny”, in World Wide Funk:]
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Look, glittery tacos have their place. A date, business lunch, night out with besties, etc. But otherwise, paying almost 20 bucks for pizzazz between a few tortillas in Huntsville, funk that. [2023 November 25, Matt Wake, “Five meals under $10 that I love from local Huntsville restaurants (and you will, too!)”, in The Huntsville Times, Huntsville, Ala., →ISSN, →OCLC:]