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fun⋅ny

1 [fuhn-ee]

adjective, -ni⋅er, -ni⋅est, noun, plural -nies.

–adjective

1.	providing fun; causing amusement or laughter; amusing; comical: a funny remark; a funny person.

2.	attempting to amuse; facetious: Did you really mean that or were you just being funny?

3.	warranting suspicion; deceitful; underhanded: We thought there was something funny about those extra charges.

4.	Informal. insolent; impertinent: Don't get funny with me, young man!

5.	curious; strange; peculiar; odd: Her speech has a funny twang.

–noun

6.	Informal. a funny remark or story; a joke: to make a funny.

funnies,

a.	comic strips.

b.	Also called funny paper. the section of a newspaper reserved for comic strips, word games, etc.

Origin:
1750–60; fun + -y ¹

2 [fuhn-ee]

–noun, plural -nies.

a shell or light skiff rowed by one person with sculls.

Origin:
1790–1800; perh. jocular use of funny ¹

fun·ny (fŭn'ē) Pronunciation Key
adj. fun·ni·er, fun·ni·est

n. pl. fun·nies Informal

A joke; a witticism.
funnies
1. Comic strips.
2. The section of a newspaper containing comic strips.

[From fun.]
fun'ni·ly adv., fun'ni·ness n.

funnies
noun
a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book [syn: comic strip]

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