to funk

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

To use an unfair motion of the hand in plumping at taw. SCHOOLBOY'S TERM.


FUNK

To smoke; figuratively, to smoke or stink through fear. I was in a cursed funk. To funk the cobler; a schoolboy's trick, performed with assafoettida and cotton, which are stuffed into a pipe: the cotton being lighted, and the bowl of the pipe covered with a coarse handkerchief, the smoke is blown out at the small end, through the crannies of a cobler's stall.

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

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