funny-looking

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English

Etymology

From funny +‎ looking. First use appears c. 1807.

Adjective

funny-looking (comparative funnier-looking or more funny-looking, superlative funniest-looking or most)

  1. (informal, somewhat derogatory) Having a strange or unusual appearance.
  2. (informal, somewhat derogatory) Having a comical or humorous appearance.
    • 1807, H. Ellen Browning, A Girl's Wandering in Hungary, page 124:
      The dairy was a funny-looking place.
    • 1827, Amelia Opie, Madeline, page 71:
      ... but you are so comical, so merry, and so funny-looking, that I should never have thought you were married;
    • 1848, Albert Smith, Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth (contributors), Bentley's Miscellany - Volume 24, page 336:
      ... that funny-looking man, with his long hair, sunken eyes, red face, and high collar
    • 1925, Bessie Blackstone Coleman, Willis Lemon Uhl, James Fleming Hosic, The Pathway to Reading - Book 3, page 231:
      At last a funny-looking old gentleman hired her, and they started off to his funny-looking old house.
    • 1979, Gerald Mast, The Comic Mind - Comedy and the Movies, page 194:
      Semon's comedy was merely that of a funny and funny-looking character who pulled any familiar joke out of the film gag bag.
    • 1992, Thomas Wolfe, James William Clark (Jr.), The Lost Boy - A Novella, page 47:
      My lord! when I go uptown and walk down the street and look at all these funny-looking little boys and girls hanging around the drug-store ...
    • 1998, Nancy A. Walker (editor), What's So Funny? - Humor in American Culture, page 245:
      But they (Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, for example) must depend on funny-looking comic personalities rather than human pretzels, balls, and rubber bands.
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