单词 | funny |
释义 | funny funny1 —funnily, adv. —funniness, n. /fun"ee/, adj., funnier, funniest, n. , pl. funnies. adj. 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. n. 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. [1750-60; FUN + -Y1] Syn. 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. funny2 /fun"ee/, n. , pl. funnies. a shell or light skiff rowed by one person with sculls. [1790-1800; perh. jocular use of FUNNY1] |
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