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Definition of Funny house
1. Noun. Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.
Generic synonyms: Asylum, Insane Asylum, Institution, Mental Home, Mental Hospital, Mental Institution, Psychiatric Hospital
Lexicographical Neighbors of Funny House
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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