单词 | funniness |
释义 | funninessn. 1. The quality or state of being funny (chiefly in sense 1). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical > quality or condition of comicalness?1691 comicality1718 vis comica1757 drollness1823 funniness1836 farcicality1849 funniosity1920 zaniness1960 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > humour > quality of being humorous facetiousness1542 sportfulnessa1586 jocularity1646 faceteness1654 humour?1663 pleasantness1685 jocoseness1706 humorousness1727 funniness1836 jokesomeness1880 SOH1980 1836 Lit. Gaz. 9 July 435/3 A would-be Jekyl follows up the funniness. 1857 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1858) I. xi. 57 I did hear one or two members..make a kind of school-boy titter at the funniness of a man's not being seconded. 1882 J. Brown John Leech in Horæ Subs. 3rd Ser. 35 A man..whose absolute levity and funniness became ponderous. 1910 Times 12 Apr. 23/4 The glorious uncertainty of cricket and the ‘funniness’ of golf are proverbial, but racquets in a way is more curious than either. 1921 Times of India 28 Feb. 12/4 His funniness, which at times rises to wit, is of the quite, unselfconscious order. 1977 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 23 Oct. 44/4 There's a funniness to the manipulation of the syntax. 2010 R. Catchlove Somewhere down Crazy River xl. 280 You're either going to shake your head incredulously or laugh at our funniness. 2. As a count noun: a funny saying, joke, etc.; a witticism. Somewhat rare.In quot. 1838: a piece of comic literature, a comedy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun] > instance of wit, witticism conceita1522 device1575 by-wit1605 passa1616 witticism1677 point1694 funniness1838 Goldwynism1936 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke gameOE jape1377 bourda1387 mirthc1390 mowa1393 chapec1400 skauncec1440 sport?1449 popc1540 flirt1549 jest1551 merriment1576 shifta1577 facetiae1577 gig1590 pleasantry1594 lepidity1647 rallery1653 drollery1654 wit-crack1662 joco1663 pleasance1668 joke1670 jocunditya1734 quizzification1801 funniment1826 side-splitter1834 funniness1838 quizzery1841 jocularity1846 rib-tickler1855 jocosity1859 humorism1860 gag1863 gas1914 nifty1918 mirthquaker1921 rib1929 boffo1934 giggle1936 1838 Fraser's Mag. June 682/1 He has only acting copies in his possession.., promiscuously bound up with Inkle and Yarico, and the Wood Demon, and all the other funninesses comprised in the ‘Oxberry's Edition’. 1842 Dublin Rev. May 512 Immethodical, ill-written, and replete with funninesses quite unbecoming to the gravity of a chronicler. 1930 Bookman Jan. 261/2 One finds oneself chuckling over their excellent funninesses. 1980 Country Life 4 Sept. 805/3 Lines and stanzas and funninesses by the double dozen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1836 |
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