funnyish

See also: funny-ish

English

Adjective

funnyish (comparative more funnyish, superlative most funnyish)

1. Alternative form of funny-ish
   • 1849, J[oseph] P[hilip] Robson, chapter VII, in The Life and Adventures of the Far-Famed Billy Purvis, Newcastle upon Tyne: […] John Clarke, page 42:

     I felt funnyish at first; but gaining confidence, or impudence if you like the term, I soon got quit of all propriety qualms, and went through my tumblerbank business in prime order, and fairly electrified the crowd.

   • 1867, Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, volume II, London: […] Robert Hardwicke, page 88:

     But, to come to the subject in a somewhat graver manner, it is deeply important that we should consider the subject well; because if for a moment I can imagine that man is merely an advance on a first-rate monkey—that I am to consider my origin no higher than a respectable ape, who sprang from a funnyish monad, myriads of myriads of ages ago—the probability is, if I don’t take care, I may return to that condition, whatever it may be.

   • 1924, Mrs. Henry Dudeney [i.e., Alice Dudeney], The Finger-Post, page 66:

     That night, a funnyish night if you like, when he had looked at Lone Brow through the landing window and thought such strange thoughts.

   • 1930 January 4, George Donald Billings, “Oliver Herford’s New Book, ‘Excuse It, Please’, Is Giddy Happy Collection of Verse: Magic of One of America’s Most Famous Humorists Fills Volume With Real Charm and Warmth—Funny From Cover to Cover”, in The Minneapolis Star‎^[1], volume 17, number 120, Minneapolis, Minn.:

     The first funnyish thing about the book is the picture on the cover, a picture drawn by the author who has illustrated the entire volume most cleverly.

   • 1931, Ethel Moseley Damon, Koamalu: A Story of Pioneers on Kauai, and of What They Built in That Island Garden, page 678:

     We had sauerkraut for dinner. It tasted funnyish.

   • 2008 June 6, Malcolm Ritter, “David Sedaris offers ‘realish’ personal memoirs”, in The Oklahoman, volume 117, number 153, page 19D:

     Whether these stories really meet the 97-percent benchmark or not, they’re a pleasure to read and funny. Or at least, funnyish.