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English
Etymology
From funk + -er.
Noun
funker (plural funkers)
- One who funks, or backs out of something due to cowardice.
1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, : [ Tipografia Giuntina, ], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 November 2020:You say a man's got no brain, when he's a fool: and no heart, when he's mean; and no stomach, when he's a funker. And when he's got none of that spunky wild bit of a man in him, you say he's got no balls.
- (euphemistic, slang) Bowdlerization of fucker.
That Funker should be in prison!
Danish
Verb
funker
- present of funke