Words similar to funk
Example sentences for: funk
How can you use “funk” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
(Intriguing, though, to learn that Microsoft only approached Funk & Wagnalls to collaborate on an encyclopedia CD-ROM after being turned down by a haughty Encyclopedia
Pat Caddell fashioned Carter's "malaise" speech, blaming the people for the funk we were in (recalling the Brecht remark: the people are against the government; the government has to change the people), and now Sidney Blumenthal.
Then there are books, like Funk's A Hog on Ice and my own The Whole Ball of Wax , that treat the origins of particular kinds of expressions and, occasionally, words.
There is also a Bibliography of sorts: the OED was, but the OED2e was not consulted; Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable was, perhaps somewhat uncritically; and, among works that either fail to reflect the latest scholarship, are not pertinent to the task set, or are just plain awful, the following are listed: Wilfred Funk's Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories , (a 1978 reprint of a 1950 work); Universal Dictionary of the English Language (1897); a modern selection from Johnson's Dictionary (1755); Partridge's Origins (1977), a work long criticized for its errors; and Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (1965), which is a $15 reprint, cursorily updated, of the 19th-century Ogilvie edition of Annandale's Dictionary .
The band's ensemble structure seemed to prefigure the black music cooperatives then being set up in Chicago, St. Louis, and Los Angeles, as well as such emerging family funk bands as Sly and the Family Stone.
Loading...