She was breathing funny now. – Troy Conway, The Cunning Linguist, London, Flamingo Books, pejy 41, 1970
At this the farmer gets to breathing funnier, hiccuping, little stray burps roll out—uncontrolled, we’re talking here. – Allan Gurganus, A Hog Loves Its Life, Gordon Lish, The Quarterly, 11, New York, N.Y., Vintage Books, 0-679-72173-8, 0893-3103, pejy 118, fall 1989
Dem nuh waan nuh honey, dem only waan di money. Dat’s how me know seh dem bwoy deh all a move funny. – Sean Paul, Dutty Rock (album title), Like Glue, 2002
He walked away, pushing the napkin in his pink pants pockets. By the way, he dresses and walks funnier out of school. He likes tight feminine colored clothes and walks like he is holding a stick between his butt cheeks. You probably wouldn’t notice him if you didn't hear his voice and looked him in the eye. Jenna assumed he liked men. – Christina Williams, Scribble: A Novel, The Bullied Girl In the Mall, 978-1974648429, pejy 221, 2017
Nuff boy move funny just fi get money. – Jah Lando, Money Hard, 2018
After church I am met by a dear parishioner who says, "Got a funny for you. Father." Now I'll have "funnies," so I can reply. "Got one for you too, Mary!" – The Living Church - Volume 212, pejy 20, 1996
Everyone would be sitting on big fluffy white clouds singing songs, telling funnies and just enjoying the day. – Brian Conaghan, When Mr. Dog Bites, pejy 54, 2014
Chic Young, who created his funny funny, “Blondie,” in 1930, and kept it the most popular comic strip in the world right through the unfunny generation, was quick to see the difference between the innocent funnies and the new generation of comics that started after the Second World War: – The New York Times Magazine, pejy cliv, 1974
The artist gave priority to “Mark Trail,” usually spending at least eight hours a day on it, then working at night on “The Ryatts,” a funny that featured the foibles of a family much like his own, which included four children. – Johnny Vardeman, Drawn into history: Gainesville cartoonist to continue legacy of Mark Trail comic, Gainesville Times, 9 Martsa 2014
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. – R. P. Moffa, The Vaulted Sky, pejy 343, 2009
I myself recollect the funnies at Eton, which were certain little boats, capable of containing one person only, who, like an Indian in his canoe, was constantly obliged to balance himself, with such critical nicety, that the least mistake was certain of producing a ducking. – Letters from a Nobleman to His Son, During the Period of His Education at Eton and Oxford, 1, pejy 63–64, 1810
As I do not belong to the boat-club, I always row by myself in a funny or at least go in a two-oared boat, with some friend with whom I should otherwise be walking. – The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, [Letter to father], Silvanus P. Thompson, 1, 1910, pejy 33, 12 Desambra 1841
We were going to have a go in one of the double scull ‘funnies’ that could be had from the Rowing Club in the harbour, but he is off up the line tomorrow to rejoin his old Battery. – Julian Tyndale-Biscoe, Gunner Subaltern, pejy 144, 1971
There was a great market for leisure boats, too: no wherries any longer, but whole fleets of punts, rowing gigs, funnies, skiffs, whiffs and randans – The River: The Thames in Our Time, 0563384786, pejy 145, 1999