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noun Slang.

a psychiatric hospital.

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Origin of funny farm

First recorded in 1960–65; funny¹ in the sense “strange, peculiar, odd” and farm in the sense “a place that serves a specified type of client”

Words nearby funny farm

funnies, funny, funny bone, funny book, funny business, funny farm, funnyman, funny money, funny paper, fun run, funster

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How to use funny farm in a sentence

Not only had the iconic comedian sexually assaulted many, many women, Maher argued, “I never thought he was funny.”
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They were just way too aggressive to try and maintain on a farm here,” says Gow of his “Nazi cows.
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The taste of metal cutlery after years of plastic can also taste funny.
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But as is her way, Kaling defended why the episode was not only funny, but necessary.
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But they are serious: what large-scale fracking does is change small farm towns into industrial sites.
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May looked along at the dimpled grace, And then at the saint-like, fair old face, “How funny!”
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The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
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We were speaking of the faculty of mimicry, and he told me such a funny little anecdote about Chopin.
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He looked up, half shutting his one funny eye, and cocking one ear up, and letting the other droop down.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
I am an easiful old pagan, and I am not angry with you at all—you funny, little champion of the Most High.
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British Dictionary definitions for funny farm

funny farm

noun

facetious a mental institution

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