An account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line):
— She told a funny story.
— She made a funny.

synonyms: funny remark, funny story, good story.

Roget 273: ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom.    navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping.    man of war etc. (combatant) 726; transport, tender, storeship^†; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala^†; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound.    ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine^†; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree [Fr.]; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy^†, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse^†, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop [Coll.], nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine.    boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau [Can.], broadhorn^†, dory, droger^†, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot^†; shallop^†, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble^†, punt, cog, kedge, lerret^†; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan^†; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame^†; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.    catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel^†, caravel; felucca, caique^†, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist^†; bilander^†, dogger^†, hooker, howker^†; argosy, carack^†; galliass^†, galleon; polacca^†, polacre^†, tartane^†, junk, lorcha^†, praam^†, proa^†, prahu^†, saick^†, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah^†; nuggah^†; kayak, keel boat [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme^†, trireme; stern-wheeler [U.S.]; wanigan^†, wangan [U.S.], wharf boat.    balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane^†; hydroplane; aerodrome; air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin; aerostat, Montgolfier; kite, parachute.    jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane; corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation; airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft.    ... show more

Dutch: grol

Arousing or provoking laughter:
— Funny stories that made everybody laugh.
— A very funny writer.

synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, laughable, mirthful, risible.

Roget 840: amusing, entertaining, diverting etc. v.; recreational, recreative, lusory^†; pleasant etc. (pleasing) 829; laughable etc. (ludicrous) 853; witty etc. 842; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish^†; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious^†.    funny; very funny, hilarious, uproarious, side-splitting.    amused etc. v.; pleased with a rattle, tickled with a pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw" [Pope]; laughing etc. v.; risible; ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die with laughter; convulsed with laughter, rolling in the aisles.    ... show more

Roget 842: witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose, humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish; playful etc. 840; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, light, spirituel^†, sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point, ben trovato [It]; comic etc. 853.    zany, madcap.    funny, amusing etc. (amusement) 840.    ... show more

Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected:
— Her speech has a funny twang.
— They have some funny ideas about war.

synonyms: curious, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular.

Roget 83: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous^†; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny.    unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful etc. 870; unexpected, unaccountable; outre [Fr.], out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis [Lat.]; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues [Fr.], preternatural; denaturalized^†.    heterogeneous, heteroclite [Gramm.], amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal^†; asymmetric etc. 243; adelomorphous^†, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous^†.    qualified etc. 469.    singular, unique, one-of-a-kind.    newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled.    ... show more

Roget 853: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric etc. (unconformable) 83; strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward etc. (ugly) 846.    extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic.    drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible etc. (unimportant) 643; doggerel; ironical etc. (derisive) 856; risible.    ... show more

Not as expected:
— Up to some funny business.

synonyms: fishy, shady, suspect, suspicious.

Experiencing odd bodily sensations.