- [uncountable]
a type of dance music with a strong rhythm, developed by African American musicians in the 1960s 放克音乐（20 世纪 60 年代美国黑人音乐家创造，节奏感强） - (also blue funk)[singular] (old-fashioned, informal)
a state of fear or worry 恐惧；忧虑 - [countable, usually singular] (North American English)
a strong unpleasant smell 浓烈臭味；恶臭
Word Originnoun early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘musty smell’): perhaps from French dialect funkier ‘blow smoke on’, based on Latin fumus ‘smoke’.