Meanings
nounblue funk (plural blue funks)
plural blue funks
- colloquialA state of nervous depression.
[…] both Whitehall and Downing Street are in a blue funk lest they should do the wrong thing, either let the man slip away with the papers or arrest him without them.
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLCSynonyms: blue fit
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA state of nervous depression.
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