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Funny vs Dunny - What's the difference?

funny | dunny |

As adjectives the difference between funny and dunny

is that funny is amusing; humorous; comical while dunny is (uk|dialect) deaf; stupid.

As nouns the difference between funny and dunny

is that funny is (humorous) a joke or funny can be (british) a narrow boat for sculling while dunny is (australia|new zealand|slang) a toilet, often outside and rudimentary.

funny

English

Etymology 1

From .

Adjective

(er)
  • Amusing; humorous; comical.
    • When I went to the circus, I only found the clowns funny .
  • Strange or unusual, often implying unpleasant.
    • The milk smelt funny so I poured it away.
    I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
    Synonyms
    * See also * See also
    Derived terms
    Related terms
    * fun

    Noun

    (funnies)
  • (humorous) A joke.
  • * 2014 , Brian Conaghan, When Mr. Dog Bites (page 54)
    • Everyone would be sitting on big fluffy white clouds singing songs, telling funnies and just enjoying the day.
  • (humorous) A comic strip.
  • * 2009 , R. P. Moffa, The Vaulted Sky (page 343)
    • His father was more likely to listen to the radio, although he would read the Sunday funnies , and his grandmother would only read the Italian language paper she picked up at the corner candy store.

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps a jocular use of (term). See above.

    Noun

    (funnies)
  • (British) A narrow boat for sculling.

    • dunny

    English

    Etymology 1

    From , via Australian convicts' flash language brought from London.

    Noun

    (dunnies)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A toilet, often outside and rudimentary.
  • * 2008 , Judith L. McNeil, No One's Child , page 95,
    • There was one leaning dunny' down the back and, if you stayed very quiet, on a very still day you could hear the white ants as they chewed the wood.The bottom boards were already eaten through, and I avoided using the ' dunny at all costs.
  • * 2010 , Kathleen M. McGinley, Out of the Daydream: Based on the Autobiography of Barry Mcginley Jones , page 47,
    • The dunny was another place to go to get out of class. You got to go there by raising your hand in class and asking Miss if you could go to the lav.
  • * 2010', Christopher Milne, ''The Boy Who Lived in a '''Dunny'' , in ''The Day Our Teacher Went Mad and Other Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls , unnumbered page,
    • ‘Until you wake up to yourself, you can live in the old dunny for all I care.’
    ‘All right, I will,’ said Tony.
  • (Scottish and northern English, slang, dated) An outside toilet, or the passageway leading to it; (by extension) a passageway or cellar.
    • Derived terms
    * dunny can * dunny cart * dunny man

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, dialect) Deaf; stupid.
  • * (rfdate) (Sir Walter Scott)
    • My old dame Joan is something dunny , and will scarce know how to manage.