funky

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: funk=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

funky, a. 

 Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking; having great fear.  [1913 Webster]

funky, n. 

 having an earthy, unsophisticated style or feeling;  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

funky, adj. (funkier, funkiest) sl.
1 (esp. of jazz or rock music) earthy, bluesy, with a heavy rhythmical beat.
2 fashionable.
3 US having a strong smell.

Derivative

funkily adv. funkiness n.

funky, adj. (funkier, funkiest) sl.
1 terrified.
2 cowardly.

THESAURUS

funky

afraid, atrabiliar, atrabilious, bad, bad-smelling, blue, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, daunted, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, fecal, fetid, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funking, fusty, gamy, graveolent, henhearted, high, ill-smelling, intimidated, lily-livered, malodorous, melancholic, melancholy, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, moldy, mousy, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, olid, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pensive, pigeonhearted, putrid, rabbity, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, sissified, sissy, smellful, smelling, smelly, soft, stale, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, timid, timorous, tristful, unmanly, unmanned, vile, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, wistful, yellow