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[fuhn-ee] Pronunciation Key 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 + -y¹

]

—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.

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fun·ny2

[fuhn-ee] Pronunciation Key

–noun, plural -nies.

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

[Origin: 1790–1800; perh. jocular use of funny¹

]

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

1. Causing laughter or amusement.
2. Intended or designed to amuse.
Strangely or suspiciously odd; curious.
Tricky or deceitful.

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.

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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.

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funny
adjective
1.	arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics" [syn: amusing]
2.	beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious]
3.	not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy]
4.	experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest"
noun
1.	an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny" [syn: funny story]

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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.

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