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Funny

adjective

(compar. funnier; superl. funniest)

1.

Arousing or provoking laughter. Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, laughable, mirthful, risible. "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"

2.

Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected. Synonyms: curious, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular. "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"

3.

Not as expected. Synonyms: fishy, shady, suspect, suspicious. "Up to some funny business" , "Some definitely queer goings-on" , "A shady deal" , "Her motives were suspect" , "Suspicious behavior"

4.

Experiencing odd bodily sensations.

noun

(pl. funnies)

1.

An account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line). Synonyms: funny remark, funny story, good story. "She made a funny"

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"Funny" Quotes from Famous Books

... find with the way things had gone so far was that Sally had a disgusting headache that marred her pleasure and her sense of humor. She hadn't said very much, and had laughed with only a half-heart at things that had seemed to me excruciatingly funny. For instance, when Billoo was seized with the cramps she had barely smiled, and once or twice when I had been doing the talking she had looked pityingly at me, instead of roaring with laughter, the ...

— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris

... wash at home, and one of her children had fallen into the hot copper, for which reason she was running so fast to fetch the doctor. So now the desire to know the history of a very portly toad made her run back to Maggie and say, "Oh, there is such a big, funny toad, Maggie! ...

— Tom and Maggie Tulliver • Anonymous

... see some people with far more than they want, when they haven't got half as much as they want; an' father says some of 'em are sometimes well-nigh starvin'. Now, it must be a dreadful worry to starve. Just think how funny it would feel to have nothin' to eat at all, not even a yam! Then it must be a dreadful thing for the poor to see their child'n without enough to eat. Yes, the poor child'n of the poor must be a worry to 'em, though the child'n of the ...

— The Lonely Island - The Refuge of the Mutineers • R.M. Ballantyne

... you seen him," she said; "you certainly give me that impression, Mrs. Lathrop. I 'd have took any vow anywhere as I asked you if you seen him 'n' you said you did. It's funny if you did n't for he drove hisself in 'n' hitched hisself too, 'n' me up in the garret when he done it, foldin' off my curtains to iron. My, to think how I did hate the idea o' ironin' them curtains! ...

— Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs • Anne Warner

... ain't so sure," said Tom, judicially rubbing his chin. "It's a new wagon-bow for you fellers; and next time just you don't get quite so funny, by a leetle shade." ...

— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough

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