subs. (nautical).—A clinker-built, narrow boat for sculls.

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (Sir Rupert the Fearless).

        Sprang up through the waves, popp’d him into his FUNNY,
Which some others already had half-fill’d with money.

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  1882.  The Field, 28 Jan. The only obtainable craft, besides FUNNIES, pair-oars, and randans, were a couple of six-oars.

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  TO FEEL FUNNY, verb. phr. (common).—To be overtaken with (1) emotion, or (2) drink: e.g., to wax amorous, or GET THE FLAVOUR (q.v.); to begin to be the worse for liquor.

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