Crossword-Solution: FUNKS 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

How the swell funks his blower and lushes red tape; what a smoke the gentleman makes with his pipe, and drinks brandy.

Bad as is overpugnacity, a scrapping boy is better than one who funks a fight, and I have no patience with the sentimentality that would here "pour out the child with the bath," but would have every healthy boy taught boxing at adolescence if not before.

Miss Tertia is, it's true, a mere girl, and you've always treated her with little consideration, but out of that company of senior and junior young ladies, she is the only soul whom our lady Secunda funks to some certain extent.

Directly back he tumbled, Before I had quit my stare, And he says: 'I'm disappinted! No Funk is buried in there.' "'The Funks is all up-country'-- That's all I could think to say, 'There never was Funks in Funkstown, And there ain't any Funks to-day.' 'Why man,' he says, 'the city That stands on Potomac's shores Was settled by Funk, the elder, Who afterward settled yours! "'The Carrols, they bust him yonder; Old Hager, he bust him here; But my heart will bust till I find him, And make a sketch of his bier.

German prisoners used to say on the Somme that their aviators were "funks," though the Allied aviators knew that it was not their opponents' lack of courage which was the principal fault, even if they had lost _morale_ from being the under dog and lacked British and French initiative, but numbers and material.