n.
1.a state of nervous depression
2.United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967) funk v.
1.draw back, as with fear or pain
Idiom of the Day
within a stone's throw of something
very close (to something)
We could not find the house even though we were within a stone's throw of it.