funk

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
funk1 informal, chiefly Brit.

▶noun (also blue funk) a state of panic or fear.

■ N. Amer. a state of depression.

▶verb avoid out of fear.

– origin C18: perh. from funk2 in the informal sense ‘tobacco smoke’, or from obs. Flemish fonck ‘disturbance, agitation’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
funk2

▶noun

• 1 a style of popular dance music of US black origin, having a strong rhythm that typically accentuates the first beat in the bar.

• 2 N. Amer. informal, dated a strong musty smell of sweat or tobacco.

▶verb (funk something up) give music elements of funk.

– origin C17: perh. from Fr. dial. funkier ‘blow smoke on’.