funny ha-ha
See also: funny ha ha
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funny ha-ha (not comparable)
- (informal) Humorous, as opposed to strange (the other meaning of funny).
- 1936, Ian Hay, The Housemaster
- What do you mean, funny? Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?
- 1938, Stevie Smith, Over The Frontier
- Is it in essence so extremely funny-ha-ha that it will bear this so frequent repetition?
- 1945, Robert J. Menner, Multiple Meaning and Change of Meaning in English, in Language, Vol. 21, No. 2
- Funny is now occasionally ambiguous, as a slang expression fashionable a decade ago shows: “Do you mean funny ‘ha-ha’ or funny ‘peculiar’?”
- 1952, Madison Bently, review of Statement on Race, in The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 65, No. 1
- They might be men: they certainly were funny (funny-peculiar not funny-ha ha).
- 2003, Lesley Chamberlain, The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud
- Freud loves mistakes because they open up so much scope for humor, and he watches how what first strikes us as “funny ha ha” shades into “funny peculiar.”
- 2004, W. R. Adams, Rairarubia
- In the morning, she couldn’t remember much, only that the dream left her feeling kind of funny inside. Not funny ha-ha, but funny weird-like.
- 2005, C++ Cookbook
- First of all, they have funny syntax (not funny ha-ha, funny strange).
- 1936, Ian Hay, The Housemaster
- (informal) Humorous, as opposed to serious or nonfunny.
- 1971, Harold Robbins, The Betsy
- But it wasn’t a funny ha-ha smile. It was the kind of smile you have when you find a friend.
- 1999, Anna Fienberg, Borrowed Light
- Mostly he makes jokes about Mum’s cooking. Not the funny ha-ha jokes, more the sneery, condescending snipes that leave an uncomfortable silence, while you decide whose side you should be on.
- 2003, Steven Cooper, With You in Spirit
- She laughs, not a funny ha-ha laugh but rather a tiny self-inflicted chuckle of disgust.
- 2005, Jan Carole, Anatomy of Pain
- I laugh when talking about this; it is not the funny ha-ha kind of laugh, but the uncomfortable kind.
- 1971, Harold Robbins, The Betsy