[perh. f. next adj.] A narrow, clinker-built pleasure-boat for a pair of sculls. Also loosely, any light boat.

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1799.  Caldron or Follies Camb., 9. While others woo The welf-oar’d funney or the slim canoo.

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1808.  Ann. Reg., 109. A young couple … took a sail in a funny off Fulham.

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1843.  J. C. Atkinson, in Zoologist, I. 293. I was in a ‘funny,’—as the small boats at Cambridge are called,—on the Cam.

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1870.  Dasent, Annals Eventful Life (ed. 4), I. xii. 140. Then there was the water, and the funnies, cutters, wherries, punchbowls, and half-deckers that thronged the river daily.

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