It's just funking lifejust giving it up because the odds seem too heavy against us.

"Mr. Ware isn't the first man in the world who has funked the limelight, and from what I can see of him it probably wasn't his fault if things did go a little crooked in the past.

She refused to budge, funked the plunge, submitting to unending blows, and words which were almost worse than blows.

So that when the men came in, and Tristram, from the sense of "not funking things" which was in him, deliberately found Laura and sat down upon a distant sofa with her, Zara suddenly felt some unpleasant feeling about her heart.