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funnyman

noun

Etymology

From funny + -man.

  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 funnyman — “funny + man”

Definitions

  1. comedian

    • To get the party started a professional funnyman was hired.
    • From 1970 to 1974 he was one of the most familiar funnymen in Chicago: by day a heavily promoted personality journalist, by night a "sit-down comic" with a devoted following.
    • As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.

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