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funkalicious
/ˌfʌŋkəˈlɪʃəs/Funky, fun, or delightfully delicious
From English, with later development in African American English funk (Smoke) + Latin via Old French and Middle English delicious (Pleasant to the senses).
Word Ancestry
Picture the word as a linguistic smoothie: one scoop of funk, one spoonful of delicious, and a deliberately silly amount of sparkle. Funk began with much less glamorous imagery—smoke and powerful smells—but African American English gradually gave funky a richer life, from earthy style to the irresistible groove of funk music, which crystallized as a genre in the United States during the 1960s. Delicious, meanwhile, came through Old French from Latin dēlīcātus, a word connected with pleasure, luxury, and things that tempt the senses. Put them together and funkalicious can praise a dessert, a person, a party, or practically anything that seems both groovy and gratifying. The joke is that funk once made people wrinkle their noses, while delicious made them reach for a fork; funkalicious persuades both reactions to share the same sentence.
The Story
Picture the word as a linguistic smoothie: one scoop of funk, one spoonful of delicious, and a deliberately silly amount of sparkle. Funk began with much less glamorous imagery—smoke and powerful smells—but African American English gradually gave funky a richer life, from earthy style to the irresistible groove of funk music, which crystallized as a genre in the United States during the 1960s. Delicious, meanwhile, came through Old French from Latin dēlīcātus, a word connected with pleasure, luxury, and things that tempt the senses. Put them together and funkalicious can praise a dessert, a person, a party, or practically anything that seems both groovy and gratifying. The joke is that funk once made people wrinkle their noses, while delicious made them reach for a fork; funkalicious persuades both reactions to share the same sentence.
Modern Usage
Something fun or funky and delicious, or a person or object full of funk.
Notable References
- Urban Dictionary entries describing the word as both fun or funky and delicious, and as full of funk
Kin & Kindred
From 'funk'·Smoke, odor; later earthy musical or stylish energy
Derived Terms
English words from this root
From 'delicious'·Pleasant to the senses, especially pleasing in taste
Derived Terms
English words from this root
Sources
Urban Dictionary
Wikipedia