»I’m in a blue funk that one of these days she will oversleep herself.» (They And I. 194. 6.)

A student.

= to be anxious, nervous about something.

(funk: a state of fear; generally with an intensifying word, e. g. a bloody, mortal, or blue funk.)

Garn

»Garn! They’d run out of ’eads when they was making you.» (P. Kelver I. 93. 9.)

A London gutter child.

Garn, a corruption of go on, is vulgar London language. It is used in the same way as the French Va! Allez!

governor

A man, slouching under the trees, paused as I overtook him.