semi-funny
See also: semifunny
English
Alternative forms
- semifunny
Etymology
From semi- + funny.
Adjective
semi-funny (not comparable)
- 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.”
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