Definition of Funkers
1. funker [n] - See also: funker
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Literary usage of Funkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1860)
"In our own country the outcry of the blood-funkers has been as excruciating as
... The American blood-funkers find great consolation in the doctrines of the ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... is a kind of mysterious spirit who inspires all kinds of petty business tricks.
funkers (thieves), the very lowest order of thieves. ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1889)
"... accompany the latter, lead them if there was any fighting, restrain the rash,
hearten the funkers, and lie in everything Buller'» right-hand man. ..."
4. My Lady Vaudeville and Her White Rats by George Fuller Golden (1909)
"Pickets and ferrets are kept on the lookout at certain offices for possible
funkers, who may not be disposed to show their contracts when signed. ..."
5. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1813)
"... funkers, are intimately mixed with a large proportion of iron pyrites, and
are only used for burning lime and bricks; the next are of superior quality, ..."
6. America, Its Realities and Resources: Comprising Important Details Connected by Francis Wyse (1846)
"^funkers.— Churches, 40 ; ministers, 40 ; and 3000 members. Jews.—Are thinly
scattered over most parts of the republic, except indeed in the New England ..."
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