semi-funny

See also: semifunny

English

Alternative forms

• semifunny

Etymology

From semi- +‎ funny.

Adjective

semi-funny (not comparable)

1. Partially funny.
   • 1867 May 8, ““Metamorphoses.””, in The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review, volume V, number 699, page 3:

     The speaker commenced by thrusting his head out of a sort of window on one side of the stage, and, having requested the audience not to believe a word he said or anything they saw, proceeded to make a great many semi-funny remarks, of which you could not hear one-half, and wished you couldn’t hear the other.

   • 1874 November 8, The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume 28, number 77, Chicago, Ill., page 10:

     There is a time, however, when a faint gleam of hope arises in the breast of the semi-funny newspaper man, and that is election time.

   • 2014 June 22, Greg Schwem, “Sorry, Mila Kunis, we are both pregnant”, in Naples Daily News, 90th year, number 333, page 8D:

     Kunis then grabbed a microphone and launched into a semi-funny sketch in which she demanded that men stop saying, “We’re pregnant.”