What is a shrinking back through fear. [Colloq.] "The horrid panic, or funk (as the men of Eton call it)." De Quincey called?
funk — A shrinking back through fear. [Colloq.] "The horrid panic, or funk (as the men of Eton call it)." De Quincey. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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