[perh. f. next adj.] A narrow, clinker-built pleasure-boat for a pair of sculls. Also loosely, any light boat.
1799. Caldron or Follies Camb., 9. While others woo The welf-oard funney or the slim canoo.
1808. Ann. Reg., 109. A young couple took a sail in a funny off Fulham.
1843. J. C. Atkinson, in Zoologist, I. 293. I was in a funny,as the small boats at Cambridge are called,on the Cam.
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.