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funk

English

  1. 🔊 an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul
  2. 🔊 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)
  3. 🔊 a state of nervous depression
    “he was in a funk”
  4. 🔊 draw back, as with fear or pain
    “she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 funk funk

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