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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Funny \Fun"ny\, noun; pl. {Funnies}. A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Funny \Fun"ny\, adjective [Compar. {Funnier}; superl. {Funniest}.] [From {Fun}.] Droll; comical; amusing; laughable; inciting laughter.
{Funny bone}. See {crazy bone}, under {Crazy}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
funny
adjective
1: arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics" [syn: {amusing}, {comic}, {comical}, {laughable}, {mirthful}, {risible}]
2: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: {curious}, {odd}, {peculiar}, {queer}, {rum}, {rummy}, {singular}]
3: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: {fishy}, {queer}, {shady}, {suspect}, {suspicious}]
4: experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest"
adverb
1: in a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper"; "he acted kind of funny" [syn: {queerly}, {strangely}, {oddly}, {funnily}]
2: in a comical manner; "she acted comically" [syn: {comically}] [also: {funniest}, {funnier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "funny": Attic, abnormal, absurd, amusing, anomalous, antic, biting, bizarre, brilliant, clever, comic, comical, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, curious, deviant, deviative, different, divergent, diverting, dotty, droll, eccentric, entertaining, erratic, exceptional, facetious, fantastic, farcical, fey, flaky, freaked out, freakish, freaky, grotesque, hilarious, humorous, humorsome, hysterical, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, incongruous, irregular, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, kinky, kooky, laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, merry, mordant, mysterious, mystifying, nimble-witted, nutty, odd, oddball, off, off the wall, out, outlandish, passing strange, peculiar, pointed, priceless, pungent, puzzling, quaint, queer, quick-witted, quirky, quizzical, rapier-like, remarkable, rich, ridiculous, risible, salt, salty, scintillating, screaming, screwball, screwy, sharp, singular, slapstick, smart, sparkling, sprightly, strange, twisted, unconventional, unearthly, unnatural, unusual, uproarious, wacky, waggish, weird, whimsical, witty, wondrous strange, zany
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