Definition of Funny house

1. Noun. Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Funny House

funninesses
funning
funnish
funny bone
funny bones
funny book
funny books
funny car
funny cars
funny farm
funny farms
funny ha-ha
funny ha ha
funny house (current term)
funny money
funny pages
funny papers
funny story
funny stuff
funny wagon
funnyman
funnymen
funnyness
funplex
funplexes
funrun
funs
funster

Literary usage of Funny house

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Foundations of a National Drama: A Collection of Lectures, Essays and by Henry Arthur Jones (1913)
"... make love and do prodigious deeds, and marry and live happily ever afterwards; or in a funny house where funny people do all sorts of funny things. ..."

2. Specimens of Exposition and Argument by Milton Oswin Percival, Robert Archibald Jelliffe (1908)
"... and marry and live happily ever afterwards; or in a funny house where funny people do all sorts of funny things. These form the great bulk, I think, ..."

3. The Far East (1906)
"... curiosity and is the admiration of the Chinese, for from all parts of the country they come to view the funny house, many women being amongst them. ..."

4. Nineteenth Century Letters by Byron Johnson Rees (1919)
""However, it is very kind of Soane, you know, but it's a funny house, and a " Just then, Soane was elbowed against him, and both making elegant bows to each ..."

5. The Indiana School Journal by Indiana State Teachers Association (1897)
"A drawing of a log house accompanied the following : What a funny house ! Would you like to live in such a house ? It is made of logs. ..."

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