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  • adjective colloquial Quite fun

Etymologies

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fun +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • ''Twill na be a funnish trip, this, if each nicht we maun list to they long-legged beasties howl beyond the firelicht.'

    Three Hearts and Three Lions Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1953

  • "How bu'ful 'pon de mountain is dem wha' funnish good tidin's!"

    The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884

  • Peter Cloran (discharged), O’Mara, an exprivate secretary of no fixed abode (locally known as Mildew Lisa), who had passed several nights, funnish enough, in a doorway under the blankets of homelessness on the bunk of iceland, pillowed upon the stone of destiny colder than man’s knee or woman’s breast, and

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • May all its storms end in calms, an funnish matter in the footoor for balmy rettuspect. Amen! "

    Lost in the Fog James De Mille

  • "She say yer needn 'think we're crazy ter marry; tain't dat, an' tain't dat we want yer ter 'sport us, -- no, no! We hev money an' kin funnish our own vittuls an 'cloes, an' we kin wuk; but it iz dat reproach dey kas 'on us, de wear an' tear uv bein 'laff'd at dat cuts us so deep.

    John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908

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