funnyish

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1. alternativeAlternative form of funny-ish.

   We had sauerkraut for dinner. It tasted funnyish.

   1931, Ethel Moseley Damon, Koamalu: A Story of Pioneers on Kauai, and of What They Built in That Island Garden, page 678

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   I felt funnyish at first; but gaining confidence, or impudence if you like the term, I soon got quit of all propriety qualms, and went through my tumblerbank business in prime order, and fairly electrified the crowd.

   1849, J[oseph] P[hilip] Robson, chapter VII, in The Life and Adventures of the Far-Famed Billy Purvis, Newcastle upon Tyne: […] John Clarke, page 42

   But, to come to the subject in a somewhat graver manner, it is deeply important that we should consider the subject well; because if for a moment I can imagine that man is merely an advance on a first-rate monkey—that I am to consider my origin no higher than a respectable ape, who sprang from a funnyish monad, myriads of myriads of ages ago—the probability is, if I don’t take care, I may return to that condition, whatever it may be.

   1867, Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, volume II, London: […] Robert Hardwicke, page 88

   That night, a funnyish night if you like, when he had looked at Lone Brow through the landing window and thought such strange thoughts.

   1924, Mrs. Henry Dudeney [i.e., Alice Dudeney], The Finger-Post, page 66

   The first funnyish thing about the book is the picture on the cover, a picture drawn by the author who has illustrated the entire volume most cleverly.

   1930 January 4, George Donald Billings, “Oliver Herford’s New Book, ‘Excuse It, Please’, Is Giddy Happy Collection of Verse: Magic of One of America’s Most Famous Humorists Fills Volume With Real Charm and Warmth—Funny From Cover to Cover”, in The Minneapolis Star, volume 17, number 120, Minneapolis, Minn.

   Whether these stories really meet the 97-percent benchmark or not, they’re a pleasure to read and funny. Or at least, funnyish.

   2008 June 6, Malcolm Ritter, “David Sedaris offers ‘realish’ personal memoirs”, in The Oklahoman, volume 117, number 153, page 19D