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English
Etymology
From funny + -ment, on model of merriment.[1]
Noun
funniment (countable and uncountable, plural funniments)
- Drollery, jesting, a funny saying or action.
1825, Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes, volume III, London: George Virtue, page 33:For the funniments of the fair, I confess I have little relish. Springing a rattle, I always deemed something too serious for a joke; and no nautical gentleman ever yet laughed at having his back scratched.
1846, The Pictorial Times, page 205:[…]; and at some of Barry’s funniments the Prince of Wales and his royal sister laughed […]
1930, Harry Randall, Harry Randall, Old Time Comedian, page 136:His disguise as the Baron Mugwump also lent itself to much funniment.
1930, Harley Granville-Barker, “Love’s Labour’s Lost”, in Prefaces to Shakespeare:Therefore he has Berowne leave the stage first, lets Costard lag behind for a little solitary funniment, and then bolt after Berowne. If the funniment raises a laugh, that breaks contact, as it were, and continuity.
1990 September 11, Wally Trabing, “With humor there is life”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel, 134th year, number 219, Santa Cruz, Calif., page A-2:Mrs. Levine, mother of former Councilman Arnold Levine, totes around an array of jokes and general funniments.
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