noun

• (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
  "The foulest stench is in the air; the funk of 40,000 years and grizzly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom."
• (uncountable, music) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.

verb

• (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
• (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
  "He funks Basketia and her son to death"
• (intransitive) To perform funk music.
  "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."
• (euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word)
  "Funk this!"

noun

• (obsolete) Touchwood, punk, tinder.

noun

• (countable) Mental depression.
  "I've been in a funk lately, I fell into a funk, I slipped into a funk, I was stuck in a funk"
• (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
  "[The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk […]"
• (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
  "It is the long probation in the old way of teaching that fellows funk at or makes funks of them and their slow pace, almost up to the end of that probation, all who teach themselves are in a worse predicament as the hands with them are made the principle propellors instead of the feet."