Obs. [f. FUNK v.1] A strong smell or stink; also, tobacco smoke.
1623. W. Capps, in P. A. Bruce, Econ. Hist. Virginia (1896), I. 136. Betwixt decks … there can hardlie a man fetch his breath by reason there arisith such a funke in the night that it causes putrefaction of bloud and breedeth disease much like the plague. The more fall sick, the more they annoy and poysen their fellows.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Funk, Tobacco Smoak; also a strong Smell or Stink.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v. What a Funk here is! What a thick Smoak of Tobacco is here! Here’s a damn’d Funk, here’s a great Stink.
fig. 1659. D. Pell, Impr. Sea, 491, note. I would either run out of the stinke of swearing, or make them to run out of the ship that should … make such a filthy funke in it.
