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Definition: FUNKING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb funk.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(funk)		 1. Draw back, as with fear or pain.[Wordnet].
2. To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.[Websters].
3. To emit an offensive smell; to stink.[Websters].
4. To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.[Websters].
5. Base verb from the following inflections: funking, funked, funks, funker, funkers, funkingly and funkedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Noun 1. A shrinking back through fear.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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"Funking" is a common misspelling or typo for: dunking, finking, flunking.

Date "Funking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)


Topics by Level of Interest: FUNKING

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Funking Conservatory 3     Funking Conservatory 3

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"funking" is a common misspelling or typo for: dunking, finking, flunking.

Synonyms: funking
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 cowering, cringing, flinching, bounding, crawling, fawning, groveling, grovelling, kicking, quailing, rebounding, recoiling, reducing, ricocheting, shriveling, shrivelling, squinting, wincing.
Consider also: dreading, fearing, moving, scaring, crouching, enjoying, failing, retracting, slumping, tempering, blenching, chickening.

Adjective

 bouncing, contracting, withering.
Consider also: faltering, dismaying, intimidating, stenching.

Noun

 funk, stench, funker, funks.
Consider also: reeking, stink, reek, niff, fetor, odor, smell, coward, horror.

Other

 malodor, mephitis, move, funked.
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Computed Synonyms: funking

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   119.3196   funking     fearing     frighting, panicing, fear, anguishing, Fears   
 2   71.3094   funking     dreading     frighting, panicing, Fearing, anguishing, fear   
 3   69.3194   funking     frighting     fearing, dreading, dismaying, alarming, scaring   
 4   69.3095   funking     scaring     frightening, terrifying, startling, alarming, dismaying   
 5   52.3095   funking     panicing     fearing, dismaying, dreading, frighting, alarming   
 6   51.3094   funking     alarming     frighting, panicing, alarm, alarmed, alarms   
 7   51.3093   funking     cowarding     cravening, dastarding, chickening, yellowing, shying   
 8   49.3093   funking     dismaying     frighting, panicing, dismay, dismayed, dismays   
 9   39.3093   funking     cravening     cowarding, dastarding, yellowing, chickening, shying   
 10   33.3095   funking     awing     reverencing, frighting, panicing, bowing, curtsying   
 11   28.3092   funking     terrifying     appalling, frightening, terrify, frighten, horrifying   
 12   27.3091   funking     apprehending     attaching, embracing, grabbing, receiving, captivating   
 13   24.3092   funking     dastarding     cowarding, cravening, rascaling, chickening, villaining   
 14   22.3093   funking     startling     frightening, scaring, startle, astonishing, jerking   
 15   21.3092   funking     affrighting     scaring, alarming, frighting, frightening, dismaying   
--------------------     328 synonyms ranked from 16 to 343 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: FUNKING

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Spanish acobardándose (funking, wimping). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, funking. (volunteer & more translations)
Urdu بدبو۔ تعفن۔ بو۔ باس۔ سڑاند (funk, funking), گھبرا جانا۔ چکرانا۔ ڈرنا (funk, funking). Additional references: Urdu, Pakistan, India, funking. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). Top

Constructed Language Translations: FUNKING

Language Translations for “funking” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin unkingfay (funking). Additional references: Pig Latin, funking. (volunteer)
Terran B acobardandose (funking, wimping). Additional references: Terran B, funking. (volunteer)
Source: compiled by the editor. Top