funny ha-ha
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "Funny is now occasionally ambiguous, as a slang expression fashionable a decade ago shows: “Do you mean funny''' ‘ha-ha’ or funny ‘peculiar’?”"
- "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."
Usage
Inflected Forms
funny ha ha (alternative)
funny-ha ha (alternative)
funny-haha (alternative)
funny/ha ha (alternative)
funny/haha (alternative)
ha-ha funny (alternative)