funsize

English

Adjective

funsize (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of fun size
   • 1990, Helen Crawley, Food Portion Sizes (second impression (with amendments); first published 1988), London: HMSO, →ISBN, page 22:

     Applause, Mars | standard bar | 50g / funsize bar | 24g

   • 1991, Eddie Izzard, Amassed Hysteria!: A Collection of Great Comedy Sketches from Hysteria!, Hysteria 2! and Hysteria 3!, Penguin Books, pages 42–43:

     We’re gonna have hollow chocolate eggs, ones that you can open up, and they’ve got scrummy things inside, you know, like Smarties and small Mars Bars. Not the big ones. Small ones, ’cos the big ones won’t fit, you see. Call them ‘funsize’, Lord, because they are fun to eat.

   • 1992, Jane Rossiter, Rosemary Seddon, The Diabetic Kids’ Cookbook (Positive Health Guides), revised edition, page 26:

     Your child should take at least 20 g carbohydrate (2 exchanges) beforehand in a readily absorbable form, eg, chocolate-coated biscuit (eg, 1 Penguin, 2 Jaffa cakes); funsize Mars bar or Twix (1 finger) or KitKat (2 fingers); 1 glass cola or lemonade (sweetened type); 4 squares ordinary chocolate.

   • 1993, Judith Wills, “Staying Slim”, in Complete Speed Slimming System: Your Ultimate Guide to Quickest-Ever Fat Loss and Figure Reshaping, London: Vermilion, →ISBN, page 120:

     But if you want chocolate every day- either have just a couple of squares of a bar, or a ‘funsize’ bar, or how about getting that chocolatey taste another, lower-fat way – say a low-fat instant chocolate drink.

   • 1993 April 22, Limburgs Dagblad (in Dutch), page 4:

     Dummy’s funsize

   • 1998 March, “Die By The Sword”, in PC Zone, section “It’s Just a Flesh”, page 6:

     Indeed overall, only those with the sharpest of minds are likely to come out on top – although the ability to rapidly carve each and every opponent into a cloud of funsize strips of bleeding flesh will also come in handy.

   • 1998 October, “Compilation Of The Month 2”, in Muzik, number 41, page 75:

     It’s like a funsize gherkin innit?

   • 1999, Sarah Harrison, Heaven’s on Hold, Flame, Hodder & Stoughton, published 2000, →ISBN, page 120:

     Karen unzipped a funsize chocolate snack with practised dexterity and handed it to Damian – ‘there. Peace perfect peace.’

   • 1999, Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue; Part 1: British Commonwealth 2000, 102nd edition, volumes 1 (Great Britain and Countries A to I), London, Ringwood: Stanley Gibbons Ltd, →ISBN, page 795:

     A second miniature sheet, 75×55 mm, containing No. 1142, was only available as a promotional item connected with the purchase of funsize bars of various Mars products or at face value from the Philatelic Bureau.

   • 2000, Lynn Huggins-Cooper, Shape and Size (Activities to Help your Child), Letts Educational, section 43, page 47:

     Buy a bag of funsize sweets and ask family members and friends to choose their favourite variety over the course of several days.

   • 2001, Sarah Harrison, The Grass Memorial, Flame, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 229:

     He pandered to this, keeping a tin of funsize chocolate bars to hand and using them shamelessly and almost always successfully as bribes.

   • 2002, Tim Richardson, “Chocolate Money”, in Sweets, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 23:

     Recently, there has been more of an emphasis on diversifying existing brands – launching orange or mint versions of established bars, for example – and also a strategy of fitting new products and their packaging to specific lifestyle occasions, whether they be a formal or relaxed social occasion, watching TV, driving a car, light snacking during the day (hence mini or funsize bars) or using a chocolate bar as a meal replacement or manly snack.

   • 2003, Paul Howard, “‘Ross is, like, such an arrogant bastard.’ Discuss.”, in The Teenage Dirtbag Years, Dublin: The O’Brien Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 26:

     He pours himself another drink, roysh, sits down at the table and puts his head in his hands, so I get up, grab a pack of Kettle Chips and a handful of, like, funsize Mars bars out of the cupboard and stort moseying up to my room.

   • 2004, Mark Brandon Read, “Sex and the Single Psychopath”, in Chopper 4: Happiness Is a Warm Gun, John Blake, →ISBN, page 102:

     There I am happily munching away on a Pollywaffle then someone hands me a Snickers funsize.

   • 2006, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Anonymous, Fashion Babylon, London, Toronto, Ont., Sydney, N.S.W., Auckland, Johannesburg: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 21:

     We ply them with alcohol, fill them with chicken salad and funsize bits of pizza, and pay some poor sod of a model to parade in front of them in our stuff, crossing our fingers that they might actually put in an order.

   • 2006, Rachel Johnson, Notting Hell, Windsor/Paragon, →ISBN, page 250:

     I notice that the big bowl containing funsize packs of Smarties and mini Mars Bars has undergone a change of contents and that, this year, the lucky winners are receiving Wildberry Fruit Leather strips and gelatine-free Gummy VegeBears from Fresh & Wild.

   • 2008 February 28, Marisa Peer, quotee, “Trancing queen helps starts to fight the flab”, in Kingston Guardian, page 22:

     We are all brainwashed by food manufacturers in this country – unhealthy food is marketed as Happy Meals, Sunny Delight and funsize chocolates, but it doesn’t take long to change our relationship with food.

   • 2008 November, Mark Wale, “Bad Sunday”, in Declan Meade, Emily Firetog, editors, Freshly Brewed: Twelve Short Plays from Bewley’s Café Theatre, The Stinging Fly, →ISBN, page 35:

     There’s a pan loaf courtesy of Pat the Baker, cans of Coke courtesy of Pat the Barman, six individual pork pies, a bag of funsize Mars bars…

   • 2009, Linda Collister, “Soups & Snacks”, in Easy Food for Kids: Simple Recipes for Child-Friendly Food, London, New York, N.Y.: Ryland Peters & Small, →ISBN, section “Vegetable Mini-Frittatas”, page 54:

     These funsize, eggy frittatas are colorful and quick to make.

   • 2009, Spencer Austin, “The Macc Daddy”, in I Am the Gloryhunter: One Man’s Quest for the Ultimate Football Season, Know The Score, →ISBN, pages 185–186:

     My bicep, my poor little cluster of nearly muscle is being pressed into a funsize turkey nugget and I’m starting to perhaps regret my outing with this bunch of Brentford fans who have that slightly edgier reputation.

   • 2009, Sarah Harrison, Matters Arising, Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 175:

     Not only that but she’d left a whole packet of kettle chips and a bag of funsize chocolates in the kitchen with instructions to eat as much as he wanted and take the rest home with him. It was practically heaven.

   • 2009 May 28, The Daily Mash, “Fat people eating shitloads of soup”, in Everyone Dead by Teatime, (online version), page 99:

     Meanwhile Emma Bradford, 19 stone of unstoppable womanhood from Darlington, said: “I just dump a load of funsize Mars Bar into a soup bowl. It’s the same.”

   • 2010, Lauren Laverne, “Bravery, Cunning and Feats of Daring Do”, in Candypop: Candy and the Broken Biscuits, HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 83:

     Pirate being somewhat funsize and me lanky, her feet just about reach my knees.

   • 2011, Jenn Ashworth, Cold Light, HarperLuxe, →ISBN, page 266:

     She’d opened up her Christmas selection boxes and the floor around them was scattered with screwed-up funsize Crunchie wrappers.

   • 2012, Sheena [Maria] Wilkinson, Grounded, Little Island, →ISBN, page 20:

     There’s a plate of funsize Twirls between them on the coffee table.

   • 2014, Michelle Harvie, Tony Howell, The 2 Day Diet: The Quick & Easy Edition, London: Vermilion, →ISBN, page 154:

     Chocolate bar | ½ a 58 g bar or a funsize bar

   • 2015, Natalie Whipple, chapter 36, in Fish out of Water, Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page 236:

     Betty holds up the funsize bag of Peanut Butter M&Ms I brought her.

   • 2015, Sophie Thompson, “Who’s for Pud?”, in My Family Kitchen: Favourite Recipes from Four Generations, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, section “State Skool Mess”, page 148:

     2 funsize Milky Ways, chopped

   • 2015 April, “Lotus Elise S Cup”, in Evo, number 207, page 040:

     The reward was a funsize Mars bar: the perfect end to any childhood meal. […] The funsize definitely taste better than the full size too.

   • 2016, Susie [(Susanna) Mary] Day, The Secrets of Billie Bright, Puffin, →ISBN, page 203:

     Efe tipped up her dressing-gown hood and emptied out a selection of Mars bars, KitKats and funsize Milky Ways across the stone floor.

   • 2016 February 23, “Mars recalls chocolate in 55 countries”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     In the UK the products affected include funsize Mars and Milky Way bars and boxes of Celebrations.

   • 2016 December 1, Ligaya Mishan, “Sichuan Dry Pot, from Subtle to Scorching, at MaLa Project”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     These appear, alongside selections more mundane (broccoli) and mysterious (“funsize” sausage), in an inventory of some 60-odd potential ingredients for the main course: Sichuan dry pot.

   • 2018 April, Tom Pinnock, “Revelations: Graham Coxon”, in Uncut, take 251, page 24:

     “For the most part I knew the songs were not gonna be used in their entirety,” he [Graham Coxon] adds, “so I did mini versions – intro, verse, chorus, instrumental, out. It was an SAS job – very funsize, like a little chocolate bar.”

   • 2020, Nevaeh Liara Ribeiro, “Seniors”, in Crimson Log, page 56:

     Most Noted For: Being very cheerful and smiley, having nice edges and lashes, being *extra,* being funsize.

   • 2020 May, Leah Poffenberger, “Sparking the Joy of Physics at Home”, in American Physical Society‎^[3], volume 29, number 5:

     Physicists from across the country contribute short articles, featuring stunning visuals and easy to follow explanations of cutting edge research, as well as “funsize activities” to explore physics concepts.