Funked [verb]

Some of my green men had funked just at the crucial moment, and I had all but shot one.

"No, I had a chance and I—funked it," said Harry, slow in speech and slow in smile.

He said that he really “funked” going aloft, for it made his head swim when he looked down.

When you funked becoming a Beethoven, I got a dog and called him after you.

One would think I was eighty; Ive never funked a horse yet, and Im not going to begin now.

You see, it was an ugly crowd, and things were beginning to be jolly dangerous, and I'd funked it badly.

He funked it so badly that he would really rather die than go through with it.

She never funked a fence, nor walked a disappointed horse along, in search of a gap or a gate.

They'll be funked utterly and look as if they were trying to break bubbles, then they'll warm up a bit.

I was an old hand; I had never funked the Hau Haus when they had been on the warpath after me.