fun size
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3.5
- noun
- /fʌn saɪz/
- US
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tamaño divertido
- It's easy to avoid overloading on fun-size treats if you follow a few simple rules:
Examples
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I read the other day about how a bunch of WW-freaks in an office were talking about how they could get a taste of something to not be so deprived, but not go over their counts, so they calculated the points in a Snickers' fun size bar, cut it into like 20 pieces, and each had one.
Blog text (4) -
You can have a "fun size" piece of candy every now and then.
Blog text (32) -
Question of the day is a Rushi fun size or bite size?
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Stick to "fun size" treats, with about 100 calories per serving.
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I would go to the Safeway and I would buy a bag of those fun size Snickers and that would be just a tiny portion of my stuff for you.
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But I bought three sacks of fun-size Almond Joys, along with the other items on the list.
Fiction book (1998) -
One fun-size package of them has about 90 calories, which equals about 8 minutes of running, 6 minutes of swimming, 16 minutes on a bike, or 11 minutes lifting weights.
Blog text (34) -
So, I will police their sugar consumption while sneaking off to rip open a fun-size wrapper so often that I become the one with a twisted gut and a film on my tongue that nothing seems to take away.
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You can enjoy a fun size chocolate bar while watching a movie.
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The party had a bowl of fun size snacks for guests to share.
Antonyms
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although the constituents 'fun' (pleasant/enjoyable) and 'size' (dimension) are individually transparent, their commercialized combination meaning 'a smaller-than-standard single-serving portion' is not directly predictable from those words — 'fun' does not inherently signal smallness. The label is a conventionalized marketing collocation (fun-size / fun-sized) that is partially motivated by affect but requires prior exposure to learn the specific small-portion sense, so it is only semi-transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
The noun fun size may come from candy makers who made very small bars and called them fun size so the little treats looked playful and were easy to share at parties or on Halloween. So, fun size now means a 'smaller-than-normal portion or version' of a snack or product.