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Funny vs Fin - What's the difference?

funny | fin |

As nouns the difference between funny and fin

is that funny is (humorous) a joke or funny can be (british) a narrow boat for sculling while fin is finn.

As an adjective funny

is amusing; humorous; comical.

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

    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.
  • fin

    English

    (wikipedia fin)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
  • * , chapter=4
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
  • A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
  • A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
  • A similar structure on the tail of a bomb, used to help keep it on course.
  • A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
  • A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
  • An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
  • A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
  • Synonyms
    * (appendange of a fish) * (appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal) flipper (of mammals) * (aircraft component) * (of a bomb) vane * (hairstyle) Mohican * (device worn by divers) flipper
    Derived terms
    * anal fin * caudal fin * dorsal fin * finning * paired fins * pectoral fin * pelvic fin * tail fin * unpaired fins

    Verb

  • (senseid)To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
  • To swim in the manner of a fish.
  • A neutrally buoyant diver does not need to fin to maintain depth.
  • To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, slang) A five-dollar bill.
  • Synonyms
    * (five-dollar bill) fiver, Lincoln

    Anagrams

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