Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK juv.) to ‘smoke out’ a schoolmate, usu. with asafoetida; cite 1844 refers to the use of presumably smoky fireworks.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: To funk the cobler; a schoolboy’s trick, performed with assafoettida and cotton, which are stuffed into a pipe: the cotton being lighted, and the bowl of the pipe covered with a coarse handkerchief, the smoke is blown out at the small end, through the crannies of a cobler’s stall.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1844		Morn. Post (London) 13 Sept. n.p.: Thus armed [with squibs] the urchins amused themselves with the old-fashioned game called ‘funk the cobbler’ much to the annoyance of the locality. It frequently happened that a flaming missile would find its way through some parlour window.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1873		Sl. Dict.

(US black) fig. or lit. to ‘stink out’, to make a smell.

1969

‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 220: These bottom broads, when they started to rot really funked up a stud’s skull.