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iadjective
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,
a.
comic strips.
b.
Also called funny paper. the section of a newspaper reserved for comic strips, word games, etc.
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Funny
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Related forms
fun·ni·ly, adverb
fun·ni·ness, noun
un·fun·ni·ly, adverb
un·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.
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Word Origin & History
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. Related: Funnier; funniest. Funny farm "mental hospital" is slang from 1963. Funny
EXPANDbone "elbow end of the humerus" is 1840; funnies "newspaper comic strips" is from 1852.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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