[Ads-l] Antedating of "Funky" (Music)

[Shapiro, Fred]

funky (OED, 2., 1935)

1906 Intelligencer (Mexico, Missouri) 2 Aug. 4/2 (Newspapers.com)

Won't someone please gently hint to the negro band that that vulgar "funky" song of theirs is very inappropriate and inelegant at public assemblages.

Fred Shapiro

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