funny
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fun
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English funny
From fun + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: funnier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: funniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: funnies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: funnier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: funniest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Amusing; humorous; comical.
pos: adj
examples: I know you'll enjoy chatting with her — she's really funny and smart.
She's full of funny stories.
gloss: Strange or unusual, often in an unpleasant way.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The milk smelt funny so I poured it away.
I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
It's funny how life goes sometimes.
Ain't it funny that the way you feel shows on your face? / And no matter how you try to hide, it states your case / Now a frown will bring your spirits down to the ground / And never let you see the good things all around
Oh it's a funny time of year / There'll be no blossom on the trees
gloss: Showing unexpected resentment.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
examples: Near-synonyms: touchy, tetchy
Don't mention it to her — she's funny about it.
'Moved in where?' Sam asked Brona in confusion. 'What boyfriend?'
'Glen,' Brona said quietly. 'You met him a while ago, remember? He only moved in last week. I was going to tell you but […] I thought you might be funny about it, that's all.'
Ash would have been happy to sit and stare at Viv all day, but when he saw the other guys staring at his sister, too, he got funny about it.
gloss: Homosexual: gay.
pos: adj
tags: Jamaica
derogatory
offensive
examples: Funny man ah get drop like a bad habit.
gloss: A joke.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: After church I am met by a dear parishioner who says, "Got a funny for you. Father." Now I'll have "funnies," so I can reply. "Got one for you too, Mary!"
Everyone would be sitting on big fluffy white clouds singing songs, telling funnies and just enjoying the day.
gloss: A comic strip.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Chic Young, who created his funny funny, “Blondie,” in 1930, and kept it the most popular comic strip in the world right through the unfunny generation, was quick to see the difference between the innocent funnies and the new generation of comics that started after the Second World War:
The artist gave priority to “Mark Trail,” usually spending at least eight hours a day on it, then working at night on “The Ryatts,” a funny that featured the foibles of a family much like his own, which included four children.
His father was more likely to listen to the radio, although he would read the Sunday funnies, and his grandmother would only read the Italian language paper she picked up at the corner candy store.
gloss: Humor in general.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
ironic
examples: Where's the funny? Your meme sucks.
Finally, the funny.
I did it for the funny.
gloss: In an unusual manner; strangely.
pos: adv
tags: nonstandard
examples: She was breathing funny now.
At this the farmer gets to breathing funnier, hiccuping, little stray burps roll out—uncontrolled, we’re talking here.
gloss: In a manner seen as being typical of a homosexual, or indicating homosexuality.
pos: adv
tags: Jamaica
derogatory
offensive
examples: Dem nuh waan nuh honey, dem only waan di money. Dat’s how me know seh dem bwoy deh all a move funny.
He walked away, pushing the napkin in his pink pants pockets. By the way, he dresses and walks funnier out of school. He likes tight feminine colored clothes and walks like he is holding a stick between his butt cheeks. You probably wouldn’t notice him if you didn't hear his voice and looked him in the eye. Jenna assumed he liked men.
Nuff boy move funny just fi get money.
Synonyms: amusing
chucklesome
comedic
comic
comical
droll
filarious
frolicsome
funnisome
funny
gut-busting
hilarious
howlarious
humourful
humorous
hysterical
jocular
joculatory
jokes
jokesome
joky
laughable
laugh-out-loud
laughworthy
playful
priceless
rib-tickling
risible
screaming
sidesplitting
sniggersome
tattyfilarious
thalian
thigh-slapping
uproarious
wacky
zany
Antonyms: humorless
Related words: fun
witty
Derived words: does the Pope wear a funny hat
do-funny
funnies
funnily
funniment
funniness
funnisome
funny accounting
funny animal
funny as a barrel of monkeys
funny as a dose of the clap
funny bone
funny book
funny boy
funny brownie
funny business
funny car
funny current
funny farm
funny ha-ha
funny ha ha
funny in the head
funny-ish
funny-looking
funnyman
funny man
funny money
funny pages
funny paper
funny papers
funny peculiar
funny stuff
funny that
funnywoman
ha-ha funny
ha ha funny
I'm not being funny
it is not even funny
it is not funny
it isn't even funny
it isn't funny
it's not even funny
it's not funny
nonfunny
you in the funny pages
you in the funny papers
semi-funny
sleep funny
unfunny
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