funk vs hum

funk

noun
  • Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor. 

  • A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation. 

  • A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly. 

  • One who fears or panics; a coward. 

  • Mental depression. 

verb
  • To frighten; to cause to flinch. 

  • To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear. 

  • To emit an offensive smell; to stink. 

  • To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. 

hum

noun
  • Unpleasant odour. 

  • A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. 

  • Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. 

  • A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. 

  • An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. 

intj
  • Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c. 

  • Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c. 

verb
  • To produce low sounds which blend continuously 

  • To express by humming. 

  • To reek, smell bad. 

  • To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. 

  • To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly 

  • To buzz, be busily active like a beehive 

How often have the words funk and hum occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )