funny adj.1
1. tipsy, slightly drunk.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Hist. of the Two Orphans I 62: More brandy was drank, and, Tom Throw beginning to be what is called funny, the house was full of uproar and confusion. | |
| Life in London (1869) 267: The trio were getting rather funny. | |
| Bk of Sports 81: It is true that Tom Moody now and then went to bed with rather a ‘funny nob’. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Wkly Rake (NY) 9 July n.p.: [P]eople cannot drink wine without feeling funny. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 18 Mar. 10/4: [He] returned to his home with just enough jig water and bug juice In him to make him funny. |
2. (US campus) intoxicated by marijuana.
| Campus Sl. Apr. 4: get funny – become high from smoking marijuana. |
3. in terms below, insane, crazy.
In compounds
a psychiatric institution.
 | Separate Peace 101: You might start to believe it and then I’d have to make a reservation for you at the Funny Farm. | |
| Cannibals 180: Between Gina and Terry, I just might get good-mooded onto a funny farm. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Go-Boy! 79: You oughta be on the funny farm, you jerk! | |
| ‘Healthy Competition’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] Think he must have come from the funny farm he was really silly. | |
| Homeboy 296: The same word used to put kooks on the funny farm. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] She was sixteen, lovely girl. Never the same again [...] In and out of the funny farms. Cut her wrists, swallowed anything she could find. | |
| Urban Grimshaw 78: The whole place was some kind of funny farm for disturbed [...] smegma-sandwich-eating doilems. | |
| Scrublands [ebook] ‘Drove me mad, put me in the funny farm. Drugs. Electric shock therapy. Suicide attempts’. | |
| Widespread Panic 288: ‘Caryl bit her nipples off and she’s been in the funny farm ever since’. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 820: [I]t stopped being funny peculiar... it went one hundred and fifty per cent funny farm. |
(US) a psychiatric institution; also attrib.
| Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 7 Nov. 4/4: Have to change your brand of dope, Tim [...] or you’ll be a candidate for the funny house. | |
| S.F. Call 10 Mar. 9/1: I didn’t know the Washington asylums were so fine that they brought funny-house candidates all they way from New York to out them there. | |
| ‘Soldier Sl.’ in Sarjint Larry an’ Frinds n.p.: funny-house:—Insane asylum. | |
| Wkly Ariz. Jrnl-Miner (Prescott, AZ) 3 June 1/3: Baseball Evangelist Grills the Preachers. Declares Majority are [...] Candidates for the Funny House. | |
| God’s Man 376: You better can that black smoke, young fellow, or it’ll have you in the funny-house. | |
| Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 158: Who put me in your private funny house? | |
| (con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 37: Don’t start calling people crazy or you’ll have to put all the citizens in the funny bin. | |
| Inside Daisy Clover (1966) 113: I really would like to get her out of that funny house. | |
| Cross of Lassitude 97: You better occupy your mind, honey [...] or you’ll be ready for the Funny Factory. | |
| Choirboys (1976) 267: Are you trying to incinerate that Roscoe belongs in the funny place? | |
| Thoughts I 30: The Funny House There’s a place I go when I’m down / Where the people come from all parts / It’s the nut house down town. |
(Aus. prison) alcohol.
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Funny stuff. Alcohol. |