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fun·ny

 (fŭn′ē)
adj. fun·ni·er, fun·ni·est
1.
a. Causing laughter or amusement: a funny cartoon.
b. Making or given to making amusing jokes or witticisms: a colleague who is very funny.
c. Appropriate as the subject of a joke; deserving of a joke. Used in negative sentences to express disapproval or to emphasize the seriousness of something: There is nothing funny about getting the flu.
2.
a. Difficult to account for; unusual or odd: I had a funny feeling that she would call.
b. Suspiciously odd: It's funny how I seem to lose something every time he comes around.
3. Counterfeit or fraudulent: tried to pass off funny money as legitimate.
4. Informal Somewhat ill, painful, or abnormal: I felt funny after eating those clams."a mole on his arm that has started to go funny" (Ann Cummins).
5. Informal
a. Offensively forward or disrespectful: She told him off after he started to get funny.
b. Contrary to one's demands or expectations: Don't let the prisoners do anything funny.
n. pl. fun·nies Informal
1. A joke; a witticism: "He laughed because he did not know I was not making a funny" (Jonathan Safran Foer).
2. funnies
a. Comic strips.
b. The section of a newspaper containing comic strips.
[From fun.]
fun′ni·ly adv.
fun′ni·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.funnily - in a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper"
queerly, strangely, oddly
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Translations
بصورة مُضْحِكَه
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mulatságosan
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funnily

[ˈfʌnɪlɪ] ADV
1. (= amusingly) → con gracia
2. (= oddly) → de forma extraña, de forma rara
he was behaving rather funnily that day → ese día se estaba comportando de forma extraña or rara
funnily enough → aunque parezca extraño ...
funnily enough, it doesn't bother her at all → aunque parezca extraño, no le molesta en absoluto
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

funnily

[ˈfʌnɪli] adv
funnily enough → bizarrement
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

funnily

adv
(= strangely) → komisch, merkwürdig; funnily enough → komischerweise, merkwürdigerweise
(= amusingly) → amüsant
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

funnily

[ˈfʌnɪlɪ] adv
a. → in modo divertente
b. (oddly) → stranamente
funnily enough → strano a dirsi, per una strana coincidenza
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fun

(fan) noun
enjoyment; a good time. They had a lot of fun at the party; Isn't this fun!
ˈfunny adjective
1. amusing; making one laugh. a funny story.
2. strange; peculiar. I heard a funny noise.
ˈfunnily adverb
fun and games
activities that are good fun. But I have to warn you, this job is not all fun and games!
for fun
as a joke; for amusement. The children threw stones for fun.
in fun
as a joke; not seriously. I said it in fun.
make fun of
to laugh at (someone, usually unkindly). They made fun of her.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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They said this so funnily that we began to laugh and to ask if there were thieves at the Opera.
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The words seemed to stick funnily in his throat, but he asked them nevertheless.
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Blood will have to flow very funnily; blood will have to flow up the Matterhorn, before I will take it as a sign that I am to shed it."
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Very likely I expressed myself funnily, and I may have looked funny, but, for all that, I believe I understand where honour lies, and what I said was but the literal truth.
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"For, observe, Marlow," he said, making at me very round eyes which contrasted funnily with the austere touch of grey on his temples, "observe, my dear fellow, that everything depended on the men who cleared up the poop in the evening leaving that coil of rope on the deck, and on the topsail-tie carrying away in a most incomprehensible and surprising manner earlier in the day, and the end of the chain whipping round the coaming and shivering to bits the coloured glass- pane at the end of the skylight.
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That is if she manages to keep any stockings at all," he added, with a sort of suppressed fury so funnily unexpected that I would have burst into a laugh if I hadn't been lost in astonishment of the simplest kind.
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