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  • adjective humorous, nonstandard comparative form of fun: more fun

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Examples

  • I've talked about this before, and it's much "funner" — is that a word?

    Tim Thomas journal: Game 7 one that got away for Bruins 2009

  • Universal has passed Knott's the last couple years in the "funner" halloween time.

    Universal Hopes You’ll Go to a Theme Park To Watch an Exclusive Movie Trailer? | /Film 2008

  • You know when you get a Christmas letter from someone who's life seems so much richer, so much fuller, so much 'funner' than yours.

    Gift Dave Hingsburger 2007

  • Every year it gets "funner" as we watch them move from eating sand to building sand castles … from being scared of the waves to diving fearlessly into the waves.

    paulpetersonlive.com 2010

  • Letter from Wall Street: Post-crisis bankin 'just got a whole lot' funner '

    Evening Standard - Home 2009

  • Letter from Wall Street: Post-crisis bankin 'just got a whole lot' funner '

    Evening Standard - Home 2009

  • It's almost a relief that you don't have to feel like you are guilt-tripping people into celebrating your birthday when they have other, 'funner' things to do.

    Brit Lit Blogs 2009

  • Besides spamming each other every day and night, all the yumcha sessions and meet ups are even 'funner'!

    CincauHangus.com 2009

  • At least she gives us something to talk about with her silly "funner" statements.

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • Apple announces new iPod family: thinner, more storage, more colours, more "funner"

    Shiny Shiny 2008

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  • It bothers me that funner is not considered the valid comparative form of fun. Why? Because saying more fun is boring; that is to say, the phrase more fun is grammatically hypocritical. It is far more fun to say funner than more fun. Shouldn't a word be what it describes? Besides, I see no phonological reason why funner shouldn't be the valid form. It doesn't break any rules. Long live 'funner'!

    July 20, 2012

  • Did you mean gunner?

    July 21, 2012

  • Re: "Did you mean gunner?" And more than that, the list of Related Words assumes we meant gunner.

    July 23, 2012

  • Funner fun-ner adjective.

    1. Funner is a word that you can say in a more fun way. Syn: fun, happy, merriment, pleasure, play, and gaiety. Bob thinks that it’s funner to play basketball than football.

    Origin: Circa 2012. Modern English. American English < “fun”

    1675-85; dialect variant of obsolente fon to befool. See fond 1325-75; late Middle English (see please, -ure); replacing Middle English plaisir < Middle French (noun use of infinitive) <

    Latin placere to please Source: dictionary.com

    Funner-ive- Adjective

    Funner-ed- verb

    October 2, 2012

  • funner fun-ner adjective.

    Having more fun than fun; I was having funner a time today. syn: synonyms. WorldRace.com

    Origin: `

    Circa 2012. < Informal. Of or pertaining to fun, especially to social fun: a fun thing to do; really a fun person; the funniest game Dictionary.com.

    Two derivatives and their part of speech.

    Fun-ni-er- adjective

    Fun-ni-est- adjective

    October 2, 2012