FUNK. Disgust; weariness; fright. A sensation sometimes experienced by students in view of an examination.
In Cantab phrase I was suffering examination funk.—Bristed's
Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 61.
A singular case of funk occurred at this examination. The man who would have been second, took fright when four of the six days were over, and fairly ran away, not only from the examination, but out of Cambridge, and was not discovered by his friends or family till some time after.—Ibid., p. 125.
One of our Scholars, who stood a much better chance than myself, gave up from mere funk, and resolved to go out in the Poll.—Ibid., p. 229.
2. Fear or sensibility to fear. The general application of the term.
So my friend's first fault is timidity, which is only not recognized as such on account of its vast proportions. I grant, then, that the funk is sublime, which is a true and friendly admission.—A letter to the N.Y. Tribune, in Lit. World, Nov. 30, 1850.
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GAS. To impose upon another by a consequential address, or by detailing improbable stories or using "great swelling words"; to deceive; to cheat.
Found that Fairspeech only wanted to "gas" me, which he did pretty effectually.—Sketches of Williams College, p. 72.
GATE BILL. In the English universities, the record of a pupil's failures to be within his college at or before a specified hour of the night.