funnies

fun·ny

F0366600 (fŭn′ē)adj. fun·ni·er, fun·ni·est 1. a. Causing laughter or amusement: a funny cartoon.b. Making or given to making amusing jokes or witticisms: a colleague who is very funny.c. Appropriate as the subject of a joke; deserving of a joke. Used in negative sentences to express disapproval or to emphasize the seriousness of something: There is nothing funny about getting the flu.2. a. Difficult to account for; unusual or odd: I had a funny feeling that she would call. b. Suspiciously odd: It's funny how I seem to lose something every time he comes around.3. Counterfeit or fraudulent: tried to pass off funny money as legitimate.4. Informal Somewhat ill, painful, or abnormal: I felt funny after eating those clams."a mole on his arm that has started to go funny" (Ann Cummins).5. Informal a. Offensively forward or disrespectful: She told him off after he started to get funny.b. Contrary to one's demands or expectations: Don't let the prisoners do anything funny.n. pl. fun·nies Informal 1. A joke; a witticism: "He laughed because he did not know I was not making a funny" (Jonathan Safran Foer).2. funniesa. Comic strips.b. The section of a newspaper containing comic strips.

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fun′ni·ly adv.fun′ni·ness n.

funnies

(ˈfʌnɪz) pl n (Journalism & Publishing) informal US and Canadian comic strips in a newspaper

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funnies - a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic bookcartoon strip, comic strip, stripnewspaper, paper - a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements; "he read his newspaper at breakfast"comic book - a magazine devoted to comic stripscartoon, sketch - a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazineframe - a single drawing in a comic_strip

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