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funnily

adv
/ˈfʌnəli/

Etymology

From funny + -ly.

  1. derived from *peymen-✻
  2. derived from *faimnijǭ✻
  3. derived from *faimnijā✻
  4. derived from fonna
  5. derived from fáni — “vain person, swaggerer”
  6. derived from fonne — “a fool, dupe”
  7. inherited from fonne
  8. suffixed as funny — “fun + y”
  9. formed as funnily — “funny + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a funny or amusing manner.

    • In this respect then, Gabriel's repetitive lyric of everyone playing: “games without frontiers and war without tears” was on the one hand quite funnily wrong. 'It's a Knockout' produced tears of laughter. […]

  2. In a strange or unexpected manner, especially of a coincidence.

    • Who, Bob? I just ran into him last week, funnily enough.
    • It hurts to swallow and to eat . . . sometimes, I find myself breathing funnily. The doctors have not found anything, even after the X-ray, but I feel that there is something physically wrong . . .

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for funnily. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA