Word: funk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monk was making a small but admired inroad into the "funk" and "soul" movements that had superseded the "cool." Funk was a deeper reach into Negro culture than jazz had taken before, a restatement of church music and African rhythms, but its motive was the same as bop's?finding something that white musicians had not taken over and, if possible, something they would sound wrong playing...
Take Colonel Bliss (Eddie Albert), a brilliant staff officer who cracks up under the strain of command. After a few weeks under Peck's care he-come to think of it, Colonel Bliss commits suicide. But take Little Jim (Bobby Darin), a sad sack in a flat funk until Peck shoots him full of s.p. For about ten minutes Bobby lies on a cot making faces like Harpo Marx, and then zowie! he's cured. He flies back to his unit, takes off on a bombing mission, runs into flak and- Well, who cares about the patients when...
...funking tests. The Times must have meant either that the test-takers "blew smoke upon" the test (a usage common in 1699) or that they "scared" it. Of these meanings the first seems the more probable, even though the early usage commonly conveyed the meaning "to blow smoke upon (a person)." Words change over the centuries and no doubt it is now possible to funk an inanamiate object. Other meanings of funk (from the Latin, fumigare) are "to smoke (a pipe) 1704," and hence, "to cause an offensive smell." We have also the noun meaning "a strong smell or stink...
...Times used slang, we might believe that the young men of America were "trying to shirk or evade" these mental tests. Other slang definitions will cast light on this matter of national concern; for example, funk, "a state of panic," "first listed as Oxford slang." The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is uncertain. See BLUE, they suggest. But before we do, notice a term in which "funk" is used in combination: Funkhole, military slang, "a trench dug-out; employment used as a pretext for evading military service." Here we have another connection which the Times surely, must have had in mind...
...Devil. (1994)" Also, the color associated with constancy, "hence, true-b," Or pertaining to the political party which has adopted blue as its color, in England, the Conservative. "To vote b." "Affected with fear, discomfort, anxiety, etc." and thus a few inches down we find simply and elequently, "B. funk extreme nervousness...