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Definition of Funny story
1. Noun. An account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line). "She made a funny"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Funny Story
Literary usage of Funny story
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage: Being a Complete Exposé of by Ann Eliza Young (1875)
"A Very funny story about an Apostle and his Wife. — Rights of the First Wife :
Brigham Young in a Fix. — He treats an Early Wife to a Dance. ..."
2. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage by Ann Eliza Young, John Bartholomew Gough, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1876)
"A Very funny story about an Apostle and his Wife. — Rights of the First Wife :
Brigham Young in a Fix. — He treats an Early Wife to a Dance. ..."
3. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage: Being a Complete Exposé of by Ann Eliza Young (1875)
"A Very funny story about an Apostle and his Wife. — Rights of the First Wife :
Brigham Young in a Fix. — He treats an Early Wife to a Dance. ..."
4. Diary of a Daly Débutante: Being Passages from the Journal of a Member of by Dora Knowlton Thompson Ranous (1910)
"I was tempted to reply as a young woman did of whom Harry Lacy tells a funny story.
She was wealthy, stage-struck, and a rather lackadaisical damsel, ..."
5. Underground: Gambling and Its Horrors. by Thomas Wallace Knox (1876)
"funny story OF A SEA CAPTAIN. - HOW HE SUPERINTENDED A MINE. - HIS MANAGEMENT OF
A MILL. - ACCIDENTS ON PURPOSE, AND HASTY FLIGHT. UNDERGROUND work in gold ..."
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