Funnest vs Unnest - What's the difference?
funnest | unnest |
(humorous, nonstandard)
* 2007, Terry Francona, Pressure on Red Sox as ALCS shifts to Cleveland [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview?gameId=271015105]
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As an adjective funnest
is (humorous|nonstandard).As a verb unnest is
to eject from a nest; to unnestle.funnest
English
Adjective
(head)- That was one of the funnest games I've ever been a part of until the very end, and then it rapidly became a whole lot not of fun. We lost in kind of an ugly fashion at the end.
Usage notes
While funnest'' is a regular superlative of the adjective ''fun'', the superlative ''most fun'' is much more common. The use of ''fun'' as an adjective is itself still often seen as informal''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'', 4th edition, 2000. (web version)or casualEdith Hope Fine, Judith Pinkerton Josephson, ''More Nitty-Gritty Grammar,'' 2001. [http://www.bartleby.com/61/11/F0361100.html] and to be avoided in formal writing, and this would apply equally to the superlative form. Merriam-Webster gives ''fun'' as an adjective without comment, and states that ''funner'' and ''funnestare "sometimes" used[http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=fun&x=0&y=0.
