英语词汇funk的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

funk; funky. Funk, for “fear of panic,” still has its best ex- planation in the Flemish phrase in de fonck siin, “in a state of panic.” Yet this literally means “to be in the smoke” and no one has been able to explain the connection between smoke and panic. Possibly smoke was associated with a panic- stricken person trying to find a way out through the smoke of a fire, or with the smoke of hell fire. The word owes part of its long popularity to its similarity to the most famous of four- letter words beginning with f. Since its introduction to En gland in the early 18th century it has also come to mean a dejected mood, especially in the phrase in a blue funk, “blue” intensifying the phrase by suggesting “the blues.” If there is an eponymous Funk somewhere, he or she would be glad to know that funky, which derives from funk, means good jazz with an earthy blues-based character. This funky is popular recent slang for anything very good or beautiful (clothes, hairstyle, etc.), but it can also mean something cheap or no good, depending on the context.

词汇	funk
词源	funk; funky. Funk, for “fear of panic,” still has its best ex- planation in the Flemish phrase in de fonck siin, “in a state of panic.” Yet this literally means “to be in the smoke” and no one has been able to explain the connection between smoke and panic. Possibly smoke was associated with a panic- stricken person trying to find a way out through the smoke of a fire, or with the smoke of hell fire. The word owes part of its long popularity to its similarity to the most famous of four- letter words beginning with f. Since its introduction to En gland in the early 18th century it has also come to mean a dejected mood, especially in the phrase in a blue funk, “blue” intensifying the phrase by suggesting “the blues.” If there is an eponymous Funk somewhere, he or she would be glad to know that funky, which derives from funk, means good jazz with an earthy blues-based character. This funky is popular recent slang for anything very good or beautiful (clothes, hairstyle, etc.), but it can also mean something cheap or no good, depending on the context.
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