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fun⋅ny
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[fuhn-ee] 
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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. |
| 7. | funnies,
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Related forms:
fun⋅ni⋅ly, adverb
fun⋅ni⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
1. diverting, comic, farcical, ridiculous, droll, witty, facetious, humorous. Funny, laughable, ludicrous refer to that which excites laughter. Funny and laughable are both applied to that which provokes laughter or deserves to be laughed at; funny is a colloquial term loosely applied and in popular use is commonly interchangeable with the other terms: a funny story, scene, joke; a laughable incident, mistake. That which is ludicrous excites laughter by its incongruity and foolish absurdity: The monkey's attempts to imitate the woman were ludicrous.
1. diverting, comic, farcical, ridiculous, droll, witty, facetious, humorous. Funny, laughable, ludicrous refer to that which excites laughter. Funny and laughable are both applied to that which provokes laughter or deserves to be laughed at; funny is a colloquial term loosely applied and in popular use is commonly interchangeable with the other terms: a funny story, scene, joke; a laughable incident, mistake. That which is ludicrous excites laughter by its incongruity and foolish absurdity: The monkey's attempts to imitate the woman were ludicrous.
fun⋅ny
2 [fuhn-ee] –noun, plural -nies.
| a shell or light skiff rowed by one person with sculls. |
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| fun·ny (fŭn'ē) adj. fun·ni·er, fun·ni·est
[From fun.] fun'ni·ly adv., fun'ni·ness n. |
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Funny
Fun"ny\, a. [Compar. Funnier; superl. Funniest.] [From Fun.] Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.Funny
Fun"ny\, n.; pl. Funnies. A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]
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Language Translation for : funny
Spanish:
divertido, gracioso,
German:
komisch,
Japanese:
おもしろい
funny
"humorous," 1756, from fun (q.v.). Meaning "strange, odd" is 1806, said to be originally U.S. Southern. The two senses of the word lead to the retort question "funny ha-ha or funny peculiar," which is attested from 1938. Funny farm "mental hospital" is slang from 1963. Funny bone "elbow end of the humerus" is 1840; funnies "newspaper comic strips" is from 1852.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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