Funk \Funk\, v. i.
1. To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
2. To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk
at the edge of a precipice. [Colloq.] --C. Kingsley.
{To funk out}, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.]
To funk right out o' political strife. --Lowell
(Biglow
Papers).