funk

nouns

a state of nervous depression
"he was in a funk"
blue funk, funk
an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
funk
is derived from
funky
is a type of (narrower)
a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
jazz

verbs

draw back, as with fear or pain
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince