funkis

Adjective

funkis (comparative more funkis, superlative most funkis)

1. Pertaining to a Scandinavian style of functionalist architecture.
   • 2010, Margaret Hayford O'Leary, Culture and Customs of Norway, p. 191:

     Funkis buildings can be identified by their flat roofs, large, flat surfaces, curved walls, geometric shapes, horizontal bands of windows, flexible interiors, and lack of excess decorations.

   • 2014, Richard Orange, The Guardian, 18 March:

     It moves on next month to include two further nesting boxes, both fitted out in Scandinavia's trademark Funkis architectural style, where Klann hopes the show's feathered stars will hatch and rear their young.

   • 2016, Philip Roughton, translating Steinumm Sigurðardóttir, The Good Lover, World Editions 2016, p. 19:

     A two-story house, so strictly funkis that he named it monkish, and earned top points from his girlfriend for it.

Alternative forms

• funkkis

Noun

funkis

1. (architecture) functionalism (doctrine in architecture stating that an architectural design should be based on the function or purpose of the designed object)

Anagrams

• fuksin

Etymology

funktionalism +‎ -is and funktionshindrad +‎ -is, respectively. In April 2011, the general assembly of "Unga RBU-are" (Rörelsehindrade barn och ungdomar) decided to change the organization's name to "Unga Funkisar".

Noun

funkis c

1. (slang, colloquial) functionalism, a modernistic (1930s) style in architecture and interior decoration guided by function, Clipping of funktionalism.
2. (slang) a crip, a disabled person, Clipping of funktionshindrad.