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funniness

noun

Etymology

From funny + -ness.

  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. suffixed as funniness — “funny + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being funny.

  2. Something funny

    Something funny; a quirky or amusing statement, mannerism, etc.

    • He, Cardew, had sat at home, accepting readymade conclusions, the shallow funninesses of imbeciles and clowns...
    • Gone were the human funninesses and kindnesses of the London gutter child...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for funniness. 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