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Fun

.

To make fun of. To make a butt of; to ridicule; to play pranks on one. (Compare Irish fonn, delight.)

Like fun. Thoroughly, energetically, with delight.

“Onʹy look at the dimmercrats, see what theyʹve done,

Jest simply by stickinʹ together like fun.”


Lowell: Biglow Papers (First series iv. stanza 5).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Fulhams, or Fullams
Full Cry
Full Dress
Full Fig (In)
Full Swing (In)
Fulsome
Fum
Fum the Fourth
Fumage
Fume
Fun
Fund
Funds
Funeral
Funeral Banquet
Funeral Games
Fungoso
Funk
Funny Bone
Furbelow
Furca