What's the difference between funk and touchwood?

Funk


Definition:

  • (n.) An offensive smell; a stench.
  • (v. t.) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
  • (v. i.) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
  • (v. i.) To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
  • (n.) Alt. of Funking

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The way they look, like extras from a remake of Men in Black filmed around FWD>> , has added to the growing excitement that they are going to deliver the most fantastical future-funk of the century.
  • (2) It dismays Kirk that Warp moved to London but he's still in touch with them and their releases, effusing particularly about DJ Mujava and "Township Funk".
  • (3) White guys working with a black guy, playing funk!’ We play what we play cos that’s what we like, and we work with George because he’s great.
  • (4) The track I’d play at my auntie’s wedding Thelma Houston: You Used To Hold Me So Tight Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thelma’s got the funk!
  • (5) It's a gently defiant position to be taking, the band conscious that what they're doing marks a sea change from the no wave and punk-funk tendencies that dominated US indie music throughout the noughties.
  • (6) He liked the band, and we gave him $10,000, which was probably a big influence.” Their second (far more unlikely) collaboration with P-Funk main man Clinton was such a success that the mere mention of his name sends the band into a love-glow of awe.
  • (7) She dared not tell Clifford she was pregnant, for she was in a Funk.
  • (8) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
  • (9) The courts will have to decide on the level of sentences, but that penalty is in principle absolutely possible for sexual offences,” he told the Funke newspaper group.
  • (10) London's size is stifling; it's too sprawling a metropolis to regularly agree to go funk-ass crazy over a particular band en masse.
  • (11) Breaking the record for the most streamed track in a single week, Uptown Funk has been listened to nearly 2.34m times in the past seven days, overtaking Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud, which notched up 1.72m streams in a single week in November.
  • (12) Emerging from Washington DC in the 1970s and led by Chuck "godfather of go-go" Brown, go-go was a relation of funk music but one that was rarely cut to vinyl.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: GUARDIAN Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars: Uptown Funk Ukip could easily crowbar this into its campaign, albeit with the line “Julio – get the stretch!” altered to include a name more in keeping with the party’s ideologies.
  • (14) Video of the year and best collaboration: Taylor Swift feat Kendrick Lamar – Bad Blood Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best female video and best pop video: Taylor Swift - Blank Space Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best male video: Mark Ronson feat Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best hip-hop video: Nicki Minaj – Anaconda Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best rock video: Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artist to watch: Trap Queen – Fetty Wap Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best direction: Kendrick Lamar – Alright Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best video with a social message: Big Sean feat Kayne West and John Legend – One Man Can Change The World Facebook Twitter Pinterest
  • (15) She was, for instance, the translator of Cornelia Funke's Inkheart series , a German young adult fantasy trilogy which reached number two in the New York Times bestseller list.
  • (16) "These are performances by one of the greatest funk-rock bands ever," wrote Ben Beaumont-Thomas in the Guardian .
  • (17) There's a You Got The Look with power chords chiselled out of funk licks; a How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore performed solo at the piano with all of its devastating naivety.
  • (18) It's all over Blow's delicious throwback funk and the atmospheric thump of the Crazy In Love sequel, Drunk In Love, which features Jay Z seemingly ignoring the pair's current vegan diet as he raps about how he likes Beyoncé's breasts for breakfast.
  • (19) Arguably, more than anything, you can detect in MYD's almost exhaustingly frenetic music the influence of early-80s Bristol and the skronking-sax-fuelled manic funk-pop of Neneh Cherry 's alma mater, Rip Rig and Panic.
  • (20) More pop-Prince than dark magus funk, it feels more like the start of a conversation than a definitive statement, but it’s a fascinating fusion of styles.

Touchwood


Definition:

  • (n.) Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.
  • (n.) Dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the Polyporus igniarius.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I did a free app called TouchWood [it made the screen look like wood and made a sound when you knocked on it].

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