You know how we both funked that marriage of his for him-you because you knew Clare so well, I because I knew Peter.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
I should say not, sir; it was I who funked it for you.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
He had had no idea that he would have, so to speak, "funked" it so.
"The Wooden Horse"
Hugh Walpole