| funk | 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) |
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| funk | a state of nervous depression |
| funk | draw back, as with fear or pain |
| funk | dugout as a place of safe retreat (when in a funk) |
| funk | robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies |
| funk | one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted |
| funk | in a state of cowardly fright |
| funk | (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues |
| funk | offensively malodorous |