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- adjective colloquial Quite
fun
Etymologies
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Examples
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''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
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"How bu'ful 'pon de mountain is dem wha' funnish good tidin's!"
The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884
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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
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May all its storms end in calms, an funnish matter in the footoor for balmy rettuspect. Amen! "
Lost in the Fog James De Mille
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"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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