funny paper
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5.1
- noun
- Archaic
:
sección de cómics
- See you in the funny papers.
- read the funny paper
Examples
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A goon sits off to one side, hat insolently atop his head, reading the funny papers.
Fiction book (1994) -
My mother told me that I learned to read when I was three years old by perusing the funny papers.
Blog text (5) -
See ya in the funny papers.
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- Hey, dad, read me the funny papers, will you?
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Go read your funny papers, kid.
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You read the funny papers, detective?
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A man in a white hat laughed at the funny papers under a tree.
Fiction book (1990) -
Well, in the funny papers, they sometimes have this little competition where you have to find an animal hidden in an illustration.
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He reads the funny papers.
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On lazy Sunday mornings, my grandfather always sits on the porch reading the funny papers.
Synonyms
10
5.8
A part of a newspaper with short comic drawings that tell jokes
2
1.0
The part of a newspaper with funny drawings and short stories
How Humorous
- Archaic
2
5.1
- Literature
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5.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a section of a newspaper that contains comic strips or humorous cartoons' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'funny' (humorous) with 'paper' (newspaper). This modifier+noun composition follows standard English patterns (cf. 'funny pages') and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun funny paper comes from newspapers that printed a whole page of funny pictures and jokes on the paper. That page had 'comic strips' and 'cartoons', so people called it the 'funny paper' and today the term means the 'comics section'.