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funny-ish

adj

Etymology

From funny + -ish.

  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 funny-ish — “funny + ish”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat funny.

    • The relative success or failure of “Adult Beginners,” directed with a steady, nonjudgmental hand by Ross Katz, depends on how funny you find Kroll. I find him funny-ish.
    • He continued: “I read the script and I found it funny-ish. I also found it horrific at times and ultimately moving in a bizarre way,” a darkly comic allegorical comment about modern life and love in the age of Tinder.
    • “When audiences laugh at something that is funny, or funny-ish, they know it’s supposed to be a joke and it works pretty well, either way,” said Johnson.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for funny-ish. 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