adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/funny joke
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I heard a really good joke the other day.
a strange/funny noise
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What’s that funny noise?
a strange/funny/odd smell
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What’s that funny smell?
funny bone
funny farm
funny money
funny papers
in a funny/strange etc kind of way
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In a funny kind of way, the bullying made me a stronger person.
smell funny/strange
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This place smells funny sometimes.
strange/odd/peculiar/funny
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The sweets had a rather peculiar taste.
taste funny/odd/strange
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These fruit drinks taste a bit funny until you get used to them.
the funny/serious side
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Luckily, when I explained the situation, he saw the funny side of it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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I always says its longer than Hamlet and not as funny .
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Even better, audiences could now see his reactions, which were sometimes as funny as the words that caused them.
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He's certainly as funny as Pratchett, and a good deal madder.
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What Amis has also acknowledged as a writer is that nice things aren't necessarily as funny as nasty things.
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In the ninth century as later, baldness struck some people as funny .
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Few bookings were as funny as Bruce's Hamlet wig.
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The first film was very good but I don't think it was nearly as funny as this one.
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In any event, they were certainly about as funny as a speech by Herbert Morrison to a Labour conference.
even
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The pictures others carry of you - it's not even funny .
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There is still scope for this funny old game to become even funnier.
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He could make it sad or gay, or even funny .
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Here are some reasons: Mishearing can cause misunderstandings which may be embarrassing or even funny but certainly not reassuring.
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The famous wrestling scene was very well-choreographed and even funny .
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They're gross, offensive, and they're not even funny .
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And some of the dialogue like the Madonna stuff, would be even funnier .
hilariously
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The result, although dark and satirical, is a joy to watch - hilariously funny and unremittingly scabrous.
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This hilariously funny collection of political satire is one of the best Private Eye annuals to date.
how
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Dear Feedback, it is up to the listener to decide how funny things are and not loutish Mr Baker.
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We invented something called the roar-o-meter to measure how funny something was.
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None the less, volunteers were asked to rate them according to how funny they found them.
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Everybody wants to shake his hand, have a picture taken with him, tell him how funny he is.
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I'd forgotten how funny it is; from now on I shall be using it in casual conversation more often.
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I remember thinking how funny he looked because he wore a sort of little beanie hat.
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I was thinking how funny it would be if I had switched the smoked salmon for ham.
pretty
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This film may be a shocker, but as well as being very sexy it's also pretty funny at times.
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The girls think this is pretty funny .
quite
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Although it sounds quite funny picking up children and carrying them can be tricky when you can hardly walk.
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In fact, Walking and Talking is quite funny .
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It would be quite funny if it weren't for the thousands of people who are dying.
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But most of the cast are quite funny , as is the script.
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It's quite funny , actually.
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When Lee, the director, is being satirical and outrageous, the movie is quite funny .
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We take it quite seriously, people laugh at it and that makes it quite funny .
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He told some quite funny stories.
really
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It made me feel really funny seeing that.
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That was really funny and he looked suspiciously close to laughter.
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It's not really funny , and you've probably heard it anyway.
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Ayckbourn develops the situation with his customary ingenuity, but I found it too morally disturbing to be really funny .
so
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That's why she's so funny .
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Kids like his songs because they are so funny .
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The Spartans did not think the episode so funny .
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He is so funny with his physical comedy.
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But I mud say, never in my short life have I witnessed anything so funny .
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I smuggled a copy out when I left because I thought it was so funny .
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Keith can not figure out why Potter looks so funny .
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To see you as a domestic adviser is so funny !
very
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He could be very funny indeed.
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I think all this is very funny .
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I enjoyed your play, and I thought that Sir John Falstaff was very funny .
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Ha, ha, ha. Very funny .
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For some reason, he found what she had just said very funny .
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Ha-ha-ha, said Matty. Very funny .
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It's not hard to see why even when clean, Kamrok's verses are very funny .
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He was a very funny man.
wickedly
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Last July, in peak form, pirouetting on his toes and gesticulating wildly, he was wickedly funny and amazingly indiscreet.
■ NOUN
bone
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The function of the funny bone is to make you cry.
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George Burns' sense of timing and captivating smile touched the hearts and funny bones of more than three generations.
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Chasing him, she banged her funny bone on the doorpost.
business
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It's a funny business , comedy.
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So the bargaining takes on a nouveau comic tone, and we all become role players in the funny business .
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Now, Riley, if you take my advice you could become something big in the funny business .
face
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Life has a way of giving a comic a funny face which ultimately starts to pay for itself.
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Carrey wants to expand beyond funny faces , the way Steve Martin and Robin Williams did.
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Do you think Bach made funny faces and giggled when he wrote that?
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He enjoyed being talked to and loved funny faces .
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Rachel was getting bored now that Billy had used up all his funny faces .
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I want to make funny faces .
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She made a funny face , gave a snorting sort of laugh.
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She had a wonderful sense of humor and would shriek with laughter when her daddy made funny faces and squeaky noises.
feeling
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But there was some funny feeling .
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I had a funny feeling it was the same for him - disgusting.
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I've got a funny feeling he's not going to roll over for me.
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It was a funny feeling to meet some one like that and feel that way.
film
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Mel Brooks won an Academy Award for this uproariously funny film , which also marked his debut as a director.
joke
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Both laughed delightedly, as if I had cracked some very funny joke .
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Tom told a clean, mildly funny joke , and Marge laughed hilariously.
look
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I thought, in my anxious state, that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there.
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Robbie gave her a funny look , as though she were a little peculiar for jumping into his illogical fragment of thought.
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This time we were getting a few funny looks from other customers.
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Billie had a funny look on her face.
man
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Luckily for comedy-lovers Middlesbrough Town Hall has added an extra date for these two marvellously funny men tonight.
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Instead, the funny man who purportedly lives here is nowhere to be found.
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Mind you, when you look around at today's funny men and women, they are all pretty middle class.
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He was a very funny man .
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The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being.
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Lozano was a wry, funny man .
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Mark Little is a funny man .
money
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It was inconceivable that they would ever take stock, or any funny money .
side
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He was one of those people who always saw the funny side of everything, Jack Gannet thought morosely.
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But it did have its funny side .
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Fortunately they saw the funny side .
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Actually, Simon took it all rather well and saw the funny side of things.
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It did have its funny side as well.
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Luckily, when I explained the situation, he saw the funny side of it.
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Shanti has always been able to see the funny side of a situation.
story
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I had no doubts about his musicianship, his talent or his ability to tell a funny story funnily.
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Perhaps Old Abe has some funny story to tell appropriate to the occasion.
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He'd give us funny stories - the Colonel coming in the front door while Luke left through the back.
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He had told a funny story that had made her laugh.
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Tonk and his Friends Pupils will love this funny story of a young robot called Tonk.
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Now she has illustrated a second, equally funny story about the time the maiden Belinda is captured by a wicked knight.
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He told some quite funny stories .
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But he was loads of fun to his peers, always ready with a quip or funny story .
thing
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The funny thing was this happened yards from where I had had a very bad motorcycle crash ten years before.
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The funny thing , continues Black, is that Walt Whitman used to work on this street.
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It's a funny thing , but they do.
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That, I thought, was the funniest thing I had ever heard.
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It is one of the funniest things to see.
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Born to be customers, the back row had thought it was the funniest thing they had heard all day.
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Dear Feedback, it is up to the listener to decide how funny things are and not loutish Mr Baker.
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A funny thing , the truth.
things
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It's done funny things to my head.
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The indeterminist claim is not, therefore, just that various funny things happen at a sub-atomic level.
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What funny things people did: she remembered Felix and Madame Tarasova shoeless.
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A lot of money can do a lot of funny things to people, not all of which are funny.
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When he does so, funny things happen.
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However, funny things do happen on the peripheries of the lame story, particularly from the talented supporting cast.
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It is one of the funniest things to see.
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Snow and ice do funny things .
way
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In a funny way he wished that Elaine would open her eyes, but she was blind drunk and slept.
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To me he was little more than a jolly stranger with a funny way of talking.
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But she was breathing very heavily and jerking her legs in a funny way , as if something hurt her.
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Max has a very funny way of telling you that you should try a different approach.
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You've got a funny way of going on, I must say.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
darkly funny/humorous/comic
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The show is a darkly comic look at medicine, money and morality.
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Social Blunders, which follows the romantic misadventures of 33-year-old Sam Callahan, is a darkly comic romp through heartache.
not remotely interested/funny/possible etc
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Life-ways are opened up which are not remotely possible, even in analogous terms, to any other species.
sb doesn't do nice/funny/sensible etc
wise/wily/funny/weird etc old bird
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I hadn't noticed what a weird old bird Ned was, either.
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Just so. Funny old bird .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Your keys aren't here." "That's funny - I'm sure I left them on the table."
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Come on, sit on my lap and I'll tell you a funny story.
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Did you like 'Notting Hill'? I thought it was hilariously funny .
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He can be pretty funny when he's had a few drinks.
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I always thought that was a funny place to have a house.
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It's funny that he managed to hit the ball because he never hits it in practice.
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It was the funniest story I'd ever heard.
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The goat was chasing Mark round and round the field - it was so funny .
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There's a funny smell coming from Pete's room.
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There's something funny going on here.
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You'll like Alan - he's really funny .
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You look really funny in that hat..
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A funny girl, he said, and the loveliest teeth he'd ever seen on anybody.
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Such incidents were not always so funny at the time, though, in retrospect we always had a good laugh.
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The funniest one was the horse.
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This penetrating study of a drunken drop-out, yearning for oblivion, is both ridiculously funny and painfully sad.
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You couldn't make up stuff that was funnier, or sadder.