FUNK, to smoke out.—_North._

FUNK, trepidation, nervousness, cowardice. To FUNK, to be afraid, or

nervous.

FUNNY-BONE, the extremity of the elbow—or rather, the muscle which

passes round it between the two bones, a blow on which causes painful

tingling in the fingers. Facetiously derived, from its being the

extremity of the _humerus_ (humorous).

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