funk

Noun

• an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

• 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)

• a state of nervous depression
  • he was in a funk
    

Verb

• draw back, as with fear or pain
  • she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Funk , Casimir Funk , blue funk , flinch , squinch , cringe , shrink , wince , recoil , quail