semi-funny
adjEtymology From semi- + funny.
1
Partially funny.
- The speaker commenced by thrusting his head out of a sort of window on one side of the stage, and, having requested the audience not to believe a word he said or anything they saw, proceeded to make a great many semi-funny remarks, of which you could not hear one-half, and wished you couldn’t hear the other.1867 May 8, ““Metamorphoses.””, in The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review, volume V, number 699, page 3:
- There is a time, however, when a faint gleam of hope arises in the breast of the semi-funny newspaper man, and that is election time.1874 November 8, The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume 28, number 77, Chicago, Ill., page 10:
1 more example
- Kunis then grabbed a microphone and launched into a semi-funny sketch in which she demanded that men stop saying, “We’re pregnant.”2014 June 22, Greg Schwem, “Sorry, Mila Kunis, we are both pregnant”, in Naples Daily News, 90th year, number 333, page 8D: