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This article is about the enjoyment of pleasure. For other uses, see Fun (disambiguation).

Children having fun playing with snow

Fun is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as «Light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; boisterous joviality or merrymaking; entertainment».^[1]

Etymology and usage

The word fun is associated with sports, entertaining media, high merriment,^[2] and amusement. Although its etymology is uncertain,^[1] it has been speculated that it may be derived from Middle English fonne (fool) and fonnen (the one fooling the other).^[3] An 18th century meaning (still used in Orkney and Shetland^[1]) was «cheat, trick, hoax», a meaning still retained in the phrase «to make fun of».^[4]

The landlady was going to reply, but was prevented by the peace-making sergeant, sorely to the displeasure of Partridge, who was a great lover of what is called fun, and a great promoter of those harmless quarrels which tend rather to the production of comical than tragical incidents.
Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)^[5]

The way the word fun is used demonstrates its distinctive elusiveness and happiness. Expressions such as «Have fun!» and «That was fun!» indicate that fun is pleasant, personal, and to some extent unpredictable. Expressions such as «I was making fun of myself» convey the sense that fun is something that can be amusing and not to be taken seriously. The adjective «funny» has two meanings, which often need to be clarified between a speaker and listener. One meaning is «amusing, jocular, droll» and the other meaning is «odd, quirky, peculiar». These differences indicate the evanescent and experiential nature of fun and the difficulty of distinguishing «fun» from «enjoyment».^[6]

Fun’s evanescence can be seen when an activity regarded as fun becomes goal-oriented. Many physical activities and individual sports are regarded as fun until the participant seeks to win a competition, at which point, much of the fun may disappear as the individual’s focus tightens. Surfing is an example. If you are a «mellow soul» (not in a competition or engaging in extreme sport) «once you’re riding waves, you’re guaranteed to be having fun».^[7]

The pleasure of fun can be seen by the numerous efforts to harness its positive associations. For example, there are many books on serious subjects, about skills such as music, mathematics and languages, normally quite difficult to master, which have «fun» added to the title.^[8]^[9]^[10]

Activities

Many physical activities provide opportunities to play and have fun. Not only can these activities be fun, but can also improve physical and mental states.

Children in a playground fountain (Frankfurt 2006)
Young adults playing (Chicago 2006)
Pillow Fight (Warsaw 2010)
Three people at a dive bar (Boston 2023)

Psychology

World War II era employment poster about the importance of fun

According to Johan Huizinga, fun is «an absolutely primary category of life, familiar to everybody at a glance right down to the animal level.»^[11] Psychological studies reveal both the importance of fun and its effect on the perception of time, which is sometimes said to be shortened when one is having fun.^[12]^[13] As the adage states: «Time flies when you’re having fun».

It has been suggested that games, toys, and activities perceived as fun are often challenging in some way. When a person is challenged to think consciously, overcome challenge and learn something new, they are more likely to enjoy a new experience and view it as fun. A change from routine activities appears to be at the core of this perception, since people spend much of a typical day engaged in activities that are routine and require limited conscious thinking. Routine information is processed by the brain as a «chunked pattern»: «We rarely look at the real world», according to game designer Raph Koster, «we instead recognize something we have chunked, and leave it at that. […] One might argue that the essence of much of art is in forcing us to see things as they really are rather than as we assume them to be».^[14] Since it helps people to relax, fun is sometimes regarded as a «social lubricant», important in adding «to one’s pleasure in life» and helping to «act as a buffer against stress».^[15]

For children, fun is strongly related to play and they have great capacity to extract the fun from it in a spontaneous and inventive way. Play «involves the capacity to have fun – to be able to return, at least for a little while, to never-never land and enjoy it.»^[15]

Physiology

Some scientists have identified areas of the brain associated with the perception of novelty, which are stimulated when faced with «unusual or surprising circumstances». Information is initially received in the hippocampus, the site of long-term memory consolidation, where the brain attempts to match the new information with recognizable patterns stored in long-term memory. When it is unable to do this, the brain releases dopamine, a chemical which stimulates the amygdala, the site of emotion, and creates a pleasurable feeling that is associated with the new memory.^[16] In other words, fun is created by stimulating the brain with novelty.

In popular culture

With the emergence of entertainment industry, fun is sold as a consumer product in the form of games, novelties, television, toys and other amusements. Marxist sociologists such as the Frankfurt School criticise mass-manufactured fun as too calculated and empty to be fully satisfying.^{[citation needed]} Bill Griffith satirises this dysphoria when his cartoon character Zippy the Pinhead asks mechanically, «Are we having fun yet?» In the Beatles song «She’s Leaving Home» fun is called «the one thing that money can’t buy.»^[17]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c «fun». Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
^ Bailey, Nathan (1775). An universal etymological English dictionary: comprehending the derivations … R. Ware, W. Innys. pp. FU. ISBN 978-1-234-36393-2.
^ Andreyev, Judith (2005). Wondering about Words: D’où Viennent Les Mots Anglais ?. Bréal; BREAL. p. 26. ISBN 978-2749503059.
^ Cousineau, Phil (2012). The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins. Cleis Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-936740-25-3.
^ Fielding, Henry (1749). The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Penguin Books (1966). pp. 458 (Book 9, Ch.6).
^ Alan Dix. «Fun Systematically» (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-13. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
^ Alderson, Alf (2008). Surfing: A Beginner’s Guide. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons. Preface. ISBN 978-0-470-51654-6.
^ Matz, Carol (2003). Famous & Fun Classic Themes – 13 Appealing Arrangements for Early Elementary to Elementary Pianists. Alfred Music Publishing.
^ de Guzmán, Miguel (2000). The Countingbury Tales: Fun With Mathematics. River Edge, NJ, Covent Garden, London: World Scientific Publishing Company. ISBN 978-981-02-4032-5.
^ Akiyama, Nobuo; Carol Akiyama (1999). Learn Japanese (Nihongo): The Fast and Fun Way. Barron’s Educational Series. ISBN 978-0-7641-0623-1.
^ Bruce C. Daniels (1995-08-15). Puritans at Play. Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1995. p. xiii. ISBN 978-0-312-12500-4.
^ Sackett, A.; Meyvis, T.; Nelson, L.; Converse, B.; Sackett, A. (2010). «You’re having fun when time flies: the hedonic consequences of subjective time progression». Psychological Science. 21 (1): 111–117. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.719.8861. doi:10.1177/0956797609354832. PMID 20424031. S2CID 14988552.
^ Glynn, Sarah (August 2012). «Why Time Flies When You’re Having Fun». Medical News Today. Retrieved 2013-02-06. Just being content or satisfied may not make time fly, but being excited or actively pursuing a desired object can.
^ Koster, Raph (2010). Theory of Fun for Game Design. O’Reilly Media, Inc. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-4493-1497-2.
^ ^a ^b Urdang, Esther (2008). Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds (2nd ed.). Taylor & Francis. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-7890-3417-5.
^ Sprenger, Marilee B. (2009). The Leadership Brain For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-470-60005-4.
^ Mark Blythe, Marc Hassnzahl (2004), «The Semantics of Fun», Funology, Springer, pp. 91–100, ISBN 978-1-4020-2966-0

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Источник

A common question we get at Merriam-Webster is, what did we call something before we had a word for it? The answers are as various as the words in question.

Take «fun.» Our evidence shows that fun first appeared in English in the late 1600s. Fun was a French invention, along with lace and jousting; prior to the Norman Conquest in the 11th century, fun was unknown in the British Isles.

A 15th-century Spanish illustration of a fool riding a goat. Though fun had long been a staple of life in Continental Europe, it did not become fully established in England until the late 1600s.

Chaucer was the first to notably dabble in fun. While many English writers of the 14th century turned to high-flying concepts like religion, mythology, and romance—Latin concepts that had made their way to England in the saddlebags of the Norman French—Chaucer turned instead to a truly Anglo-French combination of fun and fart jokes. His Canterbury Tales revolutionized the way that fun was seen in England; it was no longer considered a stuffy diversion of the upper class, but instead was finally accessible to the average serf. Chaucer is still revered today as the father of modern English fun, and as the inspiration for the whoopee cushion.

That’s not to say that fun was fully adopted by the whole of English society. Fun was officially outlawed in England by Henry VII in what marks the first move towards reclamation of a uniquely English (as opposed to Anglo-French) identity. Fun was considered a Continental vice that had brought no good—early Tudor historians point to King Harold losing an eye during the 1066 Guerre d’Amusement, or «The Battle of Fun,» as the first point at which French gaiety marred England for the worse.

Fun was embraced initially by the court of Henry VIII, though the history of this reintroduction is murky. It is rumored that fun was brought back to the English court by Anne Boleyn. As their relationship soured, Henry grew enraged at the very idea of fun, and after Anne’s death he forbade all his future consorts and wives from having fun again. This is what has led to the modern mnemonic we use to keep track of Henry’s six wives: no fun; no fun; died; no fun; no fun; survived.

Fun was finally established in England during William III’s reign at the end of the 1600s. Though William III himself was a humorless Calvinist given to bombast, the English, tired of being forgotten amidst religious persecution, court intrigue, and war, fully embraced fun. This is why the beginning of William III’s reign is known as “The Glorious Revolution.” In spite of the best efforts of the 18th-century poets, who steadfastly turned away from fun in favor of fainting and Byronic distraction, the populace was unswayed. Fun had finally taken root in England.

Fun made its way to the Americas as London’s petty criminals, convicted of injurious fun, were shipped to her shores. Fun thrived in the heat and humidity of the American South, and eventually hardier strains of fun developed and made their way north to New England. Today, fun is found all over the North American continent, especially on April Fools’ Day.

Источник

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”) or fonnen (“make a fool of”), from Middle English fonne (“a fool, dupe”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish fånig (“foolish”), Swedish fåne (“a fool”). Compare also Norwegian fomme, fume (“a fool”). More at fon, fond.

As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”, from a verb fun meaning “to cheat, trick” (1680s). The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The older meaning is preserved in the phrase to make fun of (1737) and in usage of the adjective funny. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in the mid-19th century.

Alternative etymology connected Middle English fonne with Old Frisian fonna, fone, fomne, variant forms of fāmne, fēmne (“young woman, virgin”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimnijā, from Proto-Germanic *faimnijǭ (“maiden”), from Proto-Indo-European *peymen- (“girl”), *poymen- (“breast milk”). If so, then cognate with Old English fǣmne (“maid, virgin, damsel, bride”), West Frisian famke (“girl”), Saterland Frisian fone, fon (“woman, maid, servant,» also «weakling, simpleton”).

Pronunciation[edit]

(US, UK) enPR: fŭn, IPA^(key): /fʌn/
(Northern England) IPA^(key): /fʊn/
Rhymes: -ʌn

Noun[edit]

fun (uncountable)

amusement, enjoyment or pleasure
- 2000, Robert Stanley, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Adobe Photoshop 6, Alpha Books, page 377:
  
  Grafting your boss’s face onto the hind end of a donkey is fun, but serious fun is when you create the impossible and it looks real.
playful, often noisy, activity.

Synonyms[edit]

(enjoyment, amusement): amusement, diversion, enjoyment, a laugh, pleasure
(playful, often noisy, activity): boisterousness, horseplay, rough and tumble

Derived terms[edit]

barrel of fun
for fun
for fun
for the fun of it
for the fun of it
fun and games
fun and games
fun bags
fun house
fun in a bun
fun IS AJ
fun IS AJ
fun on a bun
fun pack
fun park
fun run, fun runner, fun running
fun size
fun sponge
fun-lover
fun-loving
fun-loving
fun-maker
fun-size
fun-sized
funfair
funfair
funfest
funfest
funny
funster
good fun
great fun
have fun
have fun with
in fun
it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye
like fun
make fun of
no fun
poke fun at
terms derived from fun (noun)

Translations[edit]

enjoyment or amusement

Arabic: مَرَح‎ m (maraḥ)

Egyptian Arabic: ممتع‎
Armenian: հաճույք (hy) (hačuykʿ), ուրախություն (hy) (uraxutʿyun)
Assamese: ধেমালি (dhemali), উলাহ-বিলাহ (ulah-bilah), আমোদ (amüd)
Bengali: মজা (bn) (moja), ফুর্তি (bn) (phurti)
Bulgarian: забава (bg) (zabava), веселие (bg) (veselie)
Catalan: diversió (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 玩 (zh) (wán), 熱鬧／热闹 (zh) (rènao), 樂趣／乐趣 (zh) (lèqù)
Czech: zábava (cs) f, legrace (cs) f
Dutch: lol (nl) m, plezier (nl) n, pret (nl) f or m
Esperanto: ŝercado
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: hauskuus (fi)
French: amusement (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Spaß (de) m, Vergnügen (de) n, Amüsement (de) n
Greek: κέφι (el) n (kéfi)
Hebrew: הֲנָאָה‎ (he) m (hānāʾā), כֵּיף‎ (he) m (keif)
Hindi: मज़ा (hi) m (mazā)
Hungarian: móka (hu), tréfa (hu), poén (hu), szórakozás (hu)
Irish: spraoi m, craic f, spórt m, áibhéar m, aiteas m
Italian: divertimento (it) m
Japanese: 遊び (ja) (asobi), 楽しみ (ja) (tanoshimi), 面白さ (omoshirosa)
Korean: 재미 (ko) (jaemi)
Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: بۆ ھەوەس‎ (bo hewes), رابواردن‎ (rabwardin)
Ladin: hez f
Latin: delicia f
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: Amüsement m, Spaass m
Macedonian: забава f (zabava), разонода f (razonoda)
Malay: please add this translation if you can
Navajo: zhǫʼ
Norwegian: moro (no)
Ottoman Turkish: جنبش‎ (cümbüş)
Persian: سرگرمی‎ (fa) (sargarmi)
Plautdietsch: Spos n
Polish: ubaw (pl) m, radość (pl) f
Portuguese: divertimento (pt) m, diversão (pt) f
Romanian: distracție (ro) f, amuzament (ro) n, divertisment (ro) n, plăcere (ro) f
Russian: поте́ха (ru) f (potéxa), весе́лье (ru) n (vesélʹje), заба́ва (ru) f (zabáva), развлече́ние (ru) n (razvlečénije)
Scottish Gaelic: spòrs f, fealla-dhà m
Serbo-Croatian: zȃbava (sh) f, próvod (sh) m
Spanish: diversión (es) f, gracia (es) f
Swedish: skoj (sv)
Tagalog: saya (tl)
Thai: ความสนุก (th) (kwaam-sà-nùk)
Turkish: eğlence (tr)
Ukrainian: поті́ха f (potíxa), заба́ва f (zabáva), розва́га f (rozváha)
Urdu: مزہ‎ m (mazā)
Volapük: cog (vo)
Yiddish: שפּאַס‎ m (shpas)

playful, often noisy, activity

Armenian: զվարճանք (hy) (zvarčankʿ)
Bulgarian: веселие (bg) (veselie)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 玩 (zh) (wán), 熱鬧／热闹 (zh) (rènao)
Dutch: plezier (nl) n, pret (nl), lol (nl)
Finnish: hauskanpito (fi)
Greek: κέφι (el) n (kéfi)
Hungarian: mulatozás (hu), mulatság (hu)
Italian: allegria (it) f, svago (it) m
Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: ھەوەس‎ (ckb) (hewes)
Latin: lūdus (la) m
Norwegian: moro (no)
Plautdietsch: Spos n
Polish: zabawa (pl) f
Portuguese: divertimento (pt) m
Scottish Gaelic: spòrs f, dibhearsan m

Adjective[edit]

fun (comparative more fun or funner, superlative most fun or funnest)

(informal) Enjoyable or amusing.

We had a fun time at the party.

He is such a fun person to be with.
- 2016 January 11, Tom Bateman, quoted in Nigel Hunt, «Jekyll and Hyde, TV revamp of Robert Louis Stevenson classic, debuts on CBC-TV» CBC News, Canada:
  
  He’s the liberated character that everyone wants to be, so he was very fun to play
(informal) Whimsical or flamboyant.

This year’s fashion style is much more fun than recent seasons.

Usage notes[edit]

Note that, prescriptively, the adjectival use of fun, instead of funny as in a funny movie, is often considered unacceptable in formal contexts. This includes censure of the comparative and superlative funner and funnest, but equally constructions such as very fun (rather than, say, a lot of fun). For more, see Quinion’s discussion.

Derived terms[edit]

fun fact
fun money
no fun at parties
you must be fun at parties

Translations[edit]

enjoyable, amusing

Arabic: مَرِح‎ (mariḥ)

Egyptian Arabic: ممتع‎
Armenian: ուրախ (hy) (urax), զվարթ (hy) (zvartʿ)
Bengali: মজার (bn) (mojar)
Bulgarian: смешен (bg) (smešen), забавен (bg) (zabaven)
Catalan: divertit (ca)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 好玩 (hou² waan^4-2)

Mandarin: 好玩 (zh) (hǎowán)
Danish: sjov (da)
Dutch: plezierig (nl), leuk (nl), lollig (nl), plezant (nl) (Flanders)
Esperanto: amuza
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: hauska (fi), kiva (fi)
French: amusant (fr)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: lustig (de), spaßig (de); to be fun: Spaß (de) machen
Hebrew: מהנה‎ (mehāne), (colloquial) כייפי‎ (kefi)
Hungarian: szórakoztató (hu), poénos, poén (hu), élvezetes (hu)
Interlingua: amusante
Italian: divertente (it) m or f, intrigante (it) m or f
Japanese: 楽しい (ja) (たのしい, tanoshii)
Korean: 즐거운 (ko) (jeulgeoun), 재미있다 (ko) (jaemiitda)
Lao: ມ່ວນ (mūan)
Latin: dēlectābilis
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: flott
Macedonian: забавен m (zabaven), разоноден m (razonoden)
Malay: menyeronokkan
Polish: bawny (archaic), zabawny (pl)
Portuguese: divertido (pt)
Romanian: distractiv (ro), vesel (ro) m or n, plăcut (ro) m or n
Russian: заба́вный (ru) (zabávnyj), смешно́й (ru) (smešnój), весёлый (ru) (vesjólyj)
Spanish: divertido (es)
Swedish: rolig (sv), kul (sv), skojig (sv)
Tagalog: masaya
Thai: สนุก (th) (sà-nùk), มันส์ (th) (man) (slang)
Turkish: eğlenceli (tr), neşeli (tr)
Volapük: cogik (vo)

Verb[edit]

fun (third-person singular simple present funs, present participle funning, simple past and past participle funned)

(colloquial) To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.

Hey, don’t get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.

Translations[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

FNU, NFU, unf

Chibcha[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /βun/

Noun[edit]

fun

Alternative form of bun

References[edit]

Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English fun.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /fœn/
Rhymes: -œn

Adjective[edit]

fun (invariable)

(colloquial) fun

C’était juste pour le fun.

It was just for fun.

Galician[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

fun

first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

fun

first-person singular preterite indicative of ser

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

fun

Rōmaji transcription of ふん
Rōmaji transcription of フン

Tboli[edit]

Noun[edit]

fun

owner

Yoruba[edit]

Verb[edit]

fún

give
choke, squeeze, strangle, throttle
scatter, strew
sew

Preposition[edit]

fún

for, on behalf of

Источник

Fun

fun

— early 14c. fon «a fool,» later «trick, hoax, practical joke,» of uncertain origin. Older sense preserved in phrase to make fun of and funny money «counterfeit bills» (1938); sense of «amusement» is 1727. Stigmatized by Johnson as «a low cant word.» Funny meaning «strange, odd» is 1806, said to be originally U.S. Southern. The two senses of the word lead to the question funny ha-ha or funny peculiar, which is attested from 1938. Funny farm «mental hospital» is slang from 1963. Funny bone «elbow end of the humerus» is 1840; funnies «newspaper comic strips» is from 1928.

См. в других словарях

Английский словарь американских идиом

airport code Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu univ. abbr. Frizzy University Network univ. abbr. Frizzy’s University Network hobby abbr. Florida United Numismatists funny abbr. Family Unschoolers Network funny abbr. Families United For Novak adult abbr. Fuck Us Now adult abbr. Fucking Ugly Notebook adult abbr. Fucking Unbelievable Noise adult abbr. Fucking Un Nteresting comp. assem. abbr. Function Unknown Now network. abbr. FL4 Uniform Network non-prof. org. abbr. Filipino Unification And Networking educ. abbr. Families Understanding Nature educ. abbr. Families United Now educ. abbr. Family Unit Network gen. bus. abbr. Fairly Under Normal NYSE symbols Cedar Fair, L. P. int. bus. abbr. Falkland Unspoilt Naturals chat abbr. Fairly Unique Name …

English abbreviation dictionary

~1 adj 1 only before noun a fun activity or experience is enjoyable (It was a fun night out — we’ll have to do it again sometime.) 2 someone who is fun is enjoyable to be with because they are cheerful and amusing (a fun person/girl/guy etc especially AmE) (She’s a fun person to be around. | good/great fun BrE) (The O’Brian boys were great fun.) ~2 n 1 an experience or activity that is very enjoyable and exciting (It’s no fun to be working inside when the weather’s nice. | good/great fun BrE) (Why don’t you come with us? It’ll be great fun. | have fun (=to have an enjoyable time)) (The children were having so much fun, I hated to call them inside. | What fun! (=that sounds very enjoyable!)) 2 for fun also for the fun of it if you do something for fun, you do it because you enjoy it and not for any other reason (We drove all the way to the beach, just for fun.) 3 full of fun playful and liking amusement (Jan’s always so cheerful and full of fun.) 4 fun and games playful activities (My job isn’t all fun and games you know — I work hard as well.) 5 not be my idea of fun used to talk about an activity, situation etc that is exciting or interesting to other people but is not for you (Digging up old bones in a hot desert is not my idea of fun.) 6 in fun if you make a joke or say something about someone in fun, you do not intend it to be insulting (Don’t get upset Chris, she only said it in fun.) 7 make fun of sb/sth to make a joke about someone that is insulting or makes them feel bad (The kids at school always made fun of Jill’s clothes.) 8 like fun AmE spoken used when you think something will not happen, or when something is not true («I’m going to Barbara’s house.» «Like fun you are! Come and finish your chores first.») (- see also funny, figure of fun figure1 (14), poke fun at poke1 (5)) …

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. You refer to an activity or situation as fun if you think it is pleasant and enjoyable and it causes you to feel happy. It was such a success and we had so much fun doing it… It could be fun to watch them… You still have time to join in the fun. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you say that someone is fun, you mean that you enjoy being with them because they say and do interesting or amusing things. Liz was wonderful fun to be with. N-UNCOUNT c darkgreen]approval 3. If you describe something as a fun thing, you mean that you think it is enjoyable. If you describe someone as a fun person, you mean that you enjoy being with them. (INFORMAL) It was a fun evening… What a fun person he is! = entertaining ADJ: ADJ n 4. Someone who is a figure of fun is considered ridiculous, so that people laugh at them or make jokes about them. PHRASE: figure inflects, v-link PHR 5. If you do something for fun or for the fun of it, you do it in order to enjoy yourself rather than because it is important or necessary. I took my M. A. just for fun really… He had just come for the fun of it. PHRASE: PHR after v 6. If you do something in fun, you do it as a joke or for amusement, without intending to cause any harm. Don’t say such things, even in fun. PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR 7. If you make fun of someone or something or poke fun at them, you laugh at them, tease them, or make jokes about them in a way that causes them to seem ridiculous. Don’t make fun of me… She poked fun at people’s shortcomings. PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n …

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

I. noun Etymology: English dialect ~ to hoax, perhaps alteration of Middle English fonnen, from fonne dupe Date: 1727 1. what provides amusement or enjoyment; specifically playful often boisterous action or speech full of ~ 2. a mood for finding or making amusement all in ~ 3. a. amusement, enjoyment sickness takes all the ~ out of life b. derisive jest ; sport, ridicule a figure of ~ 4. violent or excited activity or argument let a snake loose in the classroom; then the ~ began Synonyms: ~, jest, sport, game, play mean action or speech that provides amusement or arouses laughter. ~ usually implies laughter or gaiety but may imply merely a lack of serious or ulterior purpose played cards just for ~. jest implies lack of earnestness in what is said or done and may suggest a hoaxing or teasing hurt by remarks said only in jest. sport applies especially to the arousing of laughter against someone teasing begun in sport led to anger. game is close to sport and often stresses mischievous or malicious ~ made game of their poor relations. play stresses the opposition to earnest without implying any malice or mischief pretended to strangle his brother in play. II. intransitive verb (~ned; ~ning) Date: 1833 to indulge in banter or play ; joke III. adjective (sometimes ~ner; sometimes ~nest) Date: circa 1846 1. providing entertainment, amusement, or enjoyment a ~ party a ~ person to be with 2. full of ~ ; pleasant a ~ night have a ~ time …

Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary

n. & adj. —n. 1 amusement, esp. lively or playful. 2 a source of this. 3 (in full fun and games) exciting or amusing goings-on. —adj. disp. colloq. amusing, entertaining, enjoyable (a fun thing to do). Phrases and idioms for fun (or for the fun of it) not for a serious purpose. fun run colloq. an uncompetitive run, esp. for sponsored runners in support of a charity. have fun enjoy oneself. in fun as a joke, not seriously. is great (or good) fun is very amusing. like fun 1 vigorously, quickly. 2 much. 3 iron. not at all. what fun! how amusing! Etymology: obs. fun (v.) var. of fon befool: cf. FOND …

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1. веселье, забава; развлечение figure of fun —- смешная фигура, предмет насмешек full of fun —- очень забавный; полный веселья to be fond of fun —- быть любителем шуток и веселья it would be such fun —- это было бы так весело what fun! —- как весело! to spoil the fun —- помешать веселью, испортить шутку to have fun —- веселиться; весело проводить время, развлекаться have fun! —- повеселись!; желаю тебе весело провести время! he has a lot of fun in him —- в нем много забавного to make fun of smb., to poke fun at smb. —- высмеивать кого-л, подсмеиваться над кем-л in fun, for the fun of it, for the fun of the thing —- шутки ради; чтобы посмеиваться the teasing was all in fun —- мы поддразнивали его просто в шутку 2. интерес, что-л интересное what fun! —- как интересно! the game was no fun —- игра была совсем неинтересной I don’t see the fun of it —- я не вижу в этом ничего интересного sailing a boat is great fun —- кататься на лодке очень интересно he’s learning French for fun —- он изучает французский язык потому, что ему это интересно sickness takes all the fun out of life —- болезнь лишает человека радости жизни 3. интересный, занятный человек he’s good fun —- он человек занятный, с ним интересно Id: like fun —- стремительно, очень быстро; вряд ли, как бы не так Id: fun and frolic —- веселье, забавы Id: fun and games —- веселье; приятно…

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1. noun шутка; веселье; забава figure of fun — смешная фигура, предмет насмешек he is great fun — он очень забавен it was rather fun eating in a restaurant — в ресторане обедать было гораздо интереснее I did it for/in fun — я сделал это шутки ради to make fun of smb. — высмеивать кого-л.; подсмеиваться над кем-л. what fun! — как смешно!, вот потеха! — like fun Syn: see pleasure 2. v. rare шутить (обыкн. to be funning) …

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Synonyms and antonyms of fun in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS OF «FUN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «fun» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «fun» into 25 languages

TRANSLATION OF FUN

Find out the translation of fun to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of fun from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fun» in English.

Translator English — Chinese

娱乐的

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English — Spanish

divertido

570 millions of speakers

English

fun

510 millions of speakers

Translator English — Hindi

मज़ा

380 millions of speakers

Translator English — Arabic

مُسَلٍ

280 millions of speakers

Translator English — Russian

забавный

278 millions of speakers

Translator English — Portuguese

divertido

270 millions of speakers

Translator English — Bengali

মজা

260 millions of speakers

Translator English — French

amusant

220 millions of speakers

Translator English — Malay

Keseronokan

190 millions of speakers

Translator English — German

lustig

180 millions of speakers

Translator English — Japanese

楽しい

130 millions of speakers

Translator English — Korean

재미있는

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Javanese

Nyenengake

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Vietnamese

vui vẻ

80 millions of speakers

Translator English — Tamil

வேடிக்கை

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Marathi

मजा

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Turkish

eğlence

70 millions of speakers

Translator English — Italian

divertente

65 millions of speakers

Translator English — Polish

zabawny

50 millions of speakers

Translator English — Ukrainian

веселий

40 millions of speakers

Translator English — Romanian

distractiv

30 millions of speakers

Translator English — Greek

διασκεδαστικός

15 millions of speakers

Translator English — Afrikaans

pret

14 millions of speakers

Translator English — Swedish

rolig

10 millions of speakers

Translator English — Norwegian

morsom

5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fun

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FUN»

The term «fun» is very widely used and occupies the 937 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FUN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fun

10 QUOTES WITH «FUN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fun.

I cannot sing karaoke because it’s hard and weird. If I actually tried to sing, I would probably sound good, and I think that’s weird and not fun.

It’s great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ or a doll with grandma’s dress, but then they also let me know they’re bummed I didn’t do any of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies.

In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.

I do not look at myself every morning and think: ‘Oh, my gosh, I am so perfect, so beautiful, so talented.’ No, I like to make fun of myself.

I was working for a Swedish TV show — I’m Swedish — who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS ’60 Minutes,’ but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?

I write every day. I don’t have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours. I do like to write in the morning. I start after breakfast, like 9 o’clock, and I’ll write till lunch, about 1. And after lunch, I just have fun.

A good part — and definitely the most fun part — of being a feminist is about frightening men.

There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you’ll have a good life.

We wouldn’t have done it if we didn’t think we could have fun with it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUN»

Discover the use of fun in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fun and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father—a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.

55 Ways to Have Fun with Google

Memecodes? Googlesport? The Google Calculator? Googlepark and Google Weddings? Google hacking, fighting and rhyming? In this book, you’ll find Google-related games, oddities, cartoons, tips, stories and everything else that’s fun.

Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood.

Linus Torvalds, David Diamond, 2002

Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN

Today, ESPN is arguably the most successful network in modern television history, spanning eight channels in the Unites States and around the world. But the inside story of its rise has never been fully told-until now.

James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales, 2011

A basic introduction to the concept of fractions.

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard …

David Foster Wallace, 2009

301 Ways to Have Fun at Work

Offers ideas culled from companies around the world for everything from funny training films to zany employee awards

Fun for Movers Teacher’s Book

This second edition has been updated and substantially extended to provide comprehensive practice of all areas of the syllabus. Fun activities are balanced with test-style tasks.

Anne Robinson, Karen Saxby, 2010

Idioms are the nuts and bolts of English. They add color and zing to make the language more expressive. This book with its humorous illustrations and witty definitions is almost guaranteed to make learning English idioms fun!

Learn Russian the Fast and Fun Way

Introduces Russian grammar, vocabulary, and usage through the experiences of two fictitious Americans visiting Russia, and includes vocabulary cards and a brief dictionary

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fun is used in the context of the following news items.

How Morningstar Readers Invest Their ‘Fun Money’

Over the years, many readers have told us that they have a «mad money» or «fun money» portfolio. This is usually a small slice of a more … «Morningstar.com, Jul 15»

CARIBBEAT: Grace Jerk Festival brings food and family fun to Queens

With all the necessary ingredients of food, family and fun, the Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival returns to Roy Wilkins Park in Queens next Sunday … «New York Daily News, Jul 15»

How to Find Your Inner Rhythm of Fun

Real fun came as I learned to shift a chaotic rhythm toward more calm and ease. That’s what helps me to avoid taking stressful situations too … «Care2.com, Jul 15»

Peyton Manning says speed can be overrated, pokes fun at his 40 …

Peyton Manning told campers at the 20th Manning Passing Academy in Louisiana tales of his slow 40-yard dash times in high school. «The Denver Post, Jul 15»

Bauta expects Georgia’s QB competition to be ‘fun‘

“It’s gonna be fun,” Bauta said. “It’s gonna be such a fun competition, and something I’ve been preparing for for God knows how long. It’s just … «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jul 15»

Fun Band: Make a little music, make a few friends

“The real idea for Fun Band came from Tucson, AZ,” said Billy. “When we go to Tucson to visit in the winter, there’s a Fun Band at the Voyager … «McDowell News, Jul 15»

Fast times @ Harker Heights: Fun Day in the Park fosters family time …

At the Fun Day in the Park Celebrating 30 years of Parks and Recreation Harker Heights Community Park the theme was flashback to the 80s. «The Killeen Daily Herald, Jul 15»

David Letterman just came out of retirement to make fun of Donald …

David Letterman retired in May, but just because he no longer skewers people on TV every night doesn’t mean he’s started suffering fools. The former Late Show … «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»

U.S. Coast Guard urges Ohio River boaters to balance fun with safety

… on the Ohio River while theMLB All-StarGame festivities are taking placein Cincinnati. Authorities said the goal is to balance fun with safety. «WLWT Cincinnati, Jul 15»

Consumer Watch: Discounts on summer fun

As you’re looking for fun things to do while summer rolls on, remember that military installations offer affordable options, including recreation … «Military Times, Jul 15»

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noun

something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.

enjoyment or playfulness: She’s full of fun.

verb (used with or without object), funned, fun·ning,

adjective, fun·ner, fun·nest.

Informal. of or relating to fun, especially to social fun: a fun thing to do; really a fun person; the funnest game.

Informal. whimsical; flamboyant: The fashions this year are definitely on the fun side.

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Idioms about fun

for / in fun, as a joke; not seriously; playfully: His insults were only in fun.

like fun, Informal. certainly not; of doubtful truth: He told us that he finished the exam in an hour. Like fun he did!

make fun of, to make the object of ridicule; deride: The youngsters made fun of their teacher.

Origin of fun

1675–85; dialectal variant of obsolete fon to befool. See fond¹

Words nearby fun

fuming nitric acid, fuming sulphuric acid, fumitory, fumitory family, fumy, fun, Funabashi, Funafuti, funambulist, fun and games, Funchal

Words related to fun

amusing, enjoyable, entertaining, lively, pleasant, celebration, distraction, enjoyment, joke, joy, laughter, pastime, pleasure, sport, absurdity, ball, blast, buffoonery, cheer, clowning

How to use fun in a sentence

The addition of DeAndre Hopkins is making the Arizona Cardinals very fun to watch, and a healthy Cam Newton is showing why the power run is so hard to defend against in New England.
Meanwhile, bounce rate, session duration, and session depth rely on whether there is anything fun to do on your page.
So when Mitsu got the AAC job, I thought it would be fun to interview him, but not so formally.
Brands have found hashtag challenges are a useful hook for creating fun, shareable and viral content on TikTok.

This person lists all the benefits of these environmentally positive behaviors, offers to make the actions easier for you, and gives you a fun goodie bag.
It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.
And yes, our values include tolerance of those who wish to make fun of religion.
Like I would do something making fun of somebody who was already down.
But quite unlike the schmuck, and this is the fun part, they never run up the white flag; indeed quite the opposite.
There’ll be heaps uh fun in the Cypress Hills country when they get t’ runnin’ the whisky-jacks out.
Gottschal knew perfectly well what was wanting, but he wished to have a little fun out of the matter.
We had our fun, and cleared besides a profit of nearly four pounds sterling.
At lunch he was the greatest possible fun, bubbling over with jokes and witty sallies.
Alila has still another way of fishing which is not as hard work as diving, though, after all, it is not much fun.

British Dictionary definitions for fun

noun

a source of enjoyment, amusement, diversion, etc

pleasure, gaiety, or merriment

jest or sport (esp in the phrases in or for fun)

fun and games facetious, ironic amusement; frivolous activity

like fun informal

(adverb) quickly; vigorously
(interjection) not at all! certainly not!

make fun of or poke fun at to ridicule or deride

(modifier) full of amusement, diversion, gaiety, etca fun sport

verb funs, funning or funned

(intr) informal to act in a joking or sporting manner

Word Origin for fun

C17: perhaps from obsolete fon to make a fool of; see fond 1

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Other Idioms and Phrases with fun

In addition to the idiom beginning with fun

fun and games
funny bone
funny business
funny money

also see:

for fun
like fun
make fun of
more fun than a barrel of monkeys

Also see underfunny.

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A fellow having a helping of fun

«Fun» is an synonym with Sex, see sex for more information on «Fun». Also, fun smells terrible. It does not actually exist. When you experience «fun», your brain is merely trying to convince you that life is worth living. This is only a survival instinct, and is completely false. So, next time you experience «fun», remember, life really isn’t worth living, and kill yourself. Also, the Idealism of fun is banned in the world of mathematics, well technically it isn’t banned, but there is just not chance of having the slightest morsel of optimism in something as dull as that.

The Illusion of «Fun»[edit | edit source]

You try to hide behind lies of «fun» when in fact you’re just trying to mask your insignificance as a human being. You are worthless to everyone you know and the only reason you don’t kill yourself is because you’ll make a mess when you do and in the end becoming really more trouble than you are worth. You wish that your dreams would come true and try to get at that fading glimpse of happiness but ijim did it first n the end you realize that everything is shit and shit is what shit gets. But actually life is worth living because the great almighty God created this earth for us to have ‘fun’ and be able to appreciate his creations giving our almighty God happiness and fun for fun.

Girls and Fun[edit | edit source]

Anthropologist Cyndi Lauper noted in her 1983 treatise, «Adolescent Females: The Need for Self-Affirmation and Group Affiliation,» that girls just want to have fun. This was proved to be true when «girls gone wild» was first created. (SEX)

Meaning of «Fun»[edit | edit source]

F-Is a letter used to explain «friends who do stuff together».
U-Is normally classified as «You and Me»
N-Is a term used to describe «anywhere and anytime at all down here in the deep blue sea».

also see:

F-FUCK
U-YOU
N-NIGGA

Fun in the United States[edit | edit source]

Fun has been completely banned in 7 U.S. states: Utah, Texas, Mississippi, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri or misery, Florida and South Carolina. Fun is also banned in 16 northern counties of Colorado. New York banned fun altogether during the bloody regime of Generalissimo Rudy Giuliani, but has since relaxed its standards, although not as loosely as prior to Guiliani, when it was legal to have fun by killing a homeless person and jacking off with his entrails. Extreme variants of fun are legal in several other states. In West Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri, and Pennsylvania the significantly more dangerous fun with guns is legal.

In California, Hawaii, Vermont and Massachusetts the highly controversial fun with people of your same sex is legal. In Wyoming, Oregon, and Rhode Island you can only have fun with cowboys. Montana allows fun with cowboys, with people of your same sex or with guns but not any combination at the same time. East Dakota allows fun with cowboys, with people of your same sex and with guns in any combination at the same time. The majority of states have minor limitations on fun. Georgia, Iowa and North Carolina only allow fun with Jesus, but there is no legal limit on how much you may consume.

Hawaii allows fun with captured naked native women. Alaska and Pennsylvania have a similar laws, but are rarely invoked. North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Michigan allow fun while fucking with Canadians. It is legal to have as much fun as you want in Alabama as long as it is with someone you or related to, and/or involves Forest Gump. Maryland is the only state that allows fun with crabs. Neighbouring Virginia banned the practice in 1997, following an outcry from the state’s swinger population. While fun is legal in Arkansas, it is hard to come by, due to the fun bans by the majority of its neighbours. This has been hastened by a fun shortage following the demolitions of Louisiana by God in 2005.

Fun does still exist and roams freely on other continents such as Japan and Australia in the form of sex.

Fun in the world[edit | edit source]

Sometimes fun comes in the ways you’d least expect it

Major research institutes conducted a big surveillance in aught-six, known affectionately among its followers as «The big international humour research project». It discovered several amusing facts, such as:

The worlds funnest thing to do is drugs.
You can do anything while on drugs and have fun. Really. Anything.
The world’s finest comedians are from Canada.
Canadians do drugs.
The word’s least fun people are Germans. They also have the most fun.
The world’s funniest joke is the one about two hunters where one gets hurt and the other one calls 911 and shoots his buddy because the operator says to «make sure he’s dead».
- It only got to first place because it was everyone’s second choice
The world’s funniest animal is a duck. Nobody knows which duck.
The funniest joke in Ireland is this: there’s two blokes at a bar and one says «I heard ye buried yer wife yesterday», to which the other replies «Aye, I had to. She was dead».
- That’s approximately 59.66 times funnier than the supposedly funniest joke.
In many third world countries, comparing someone’s mother to an old cow that doesn’t give milk is such a grave insult it’s hilarious.
If you think that something or someone isn’t funny it’s your sense of humour that’s lacking, not theirs.
According to English ‘fun size’ chocolate bars, the size of fun is 2.5 inches long, which isn’t very big, so little to no fun is possible in this situation.

Activities noted to be «Fun»[edit | edit source]

Sex: This is a LOT of fun. I enjoy it a whole friggin’ bunch. If you can have sex, by all means, do so. It is worth it. Even if you have to pay, it’s worth it. If you do pay for it, you can probably expect superior sex, as you will be getting sex from a professional.
Vodka: Every body knows that: Drinking is fun. If you drink vodka you may have sex with all the persons that normally you would never thought of, possibly members of the opposite sex. And -that- sex is fun..
Eating: You pay for food and you know its gonna be good. Unlike that trash can food I see people occasionally searching in. It may be free, but doesn’t mean its good.
Playing: Kids are notorious for playing all day long and having lots of fun, but any adult trying to play is immediately crucified by the Catholic Church and their entrails spread out to spell «You thought we were weren’t serious, did you?»
Kitten Huffing: While the actual act of huffing kittens may not be fun, the eventual effect of this activity oftejim did it first n leads to mass amounts of fun and the ability to see through one’s own hands.
Spelling: FUN. See … I feel better already.

Activities noted to not be «Fun»[edit | edit source]

A middle class family having fun, as evident by their cheerful faces.

Exercising
Glue Sniffing
Your mom
Getting Shot at
Discussing religion on the Internet
Discussing religion in the real world
Discussing religion
Soccer
Staring at your privates (Discussions are in place to check validity of this claim)
Education
Graffiti
Goatse
2 Girls 1 Calculus Equation
Mathematics
Your Dad
Your momagain
Rebecca Black

How To Calculate Fun[edit | edit source]

All fun follows a simple equation:

Here are some fun activities:

Tennis[edit | edit source]

Hit by ball, hit by racquet, hit by other player, suddenly get sucked into another dimension because you hit the ball too hard.

Sex[edit | edit source]

Crushed by partner, spontaneous combustion caused by friction, STDs, drowned in semen and pregnancy and/or severe rug-burn.

Now the most fun thing ever…

Sudoku[edit | edit source]

All could not be listed however some are.

Rift in space, brain being fried, dropping pen into leg, tripping and falling onto pen, taking so long to complete a puzzle that you miss your bus stop and end up the bus driver’s next victim.

Though there is a certain recurring pattern between the level of fun and purple fluffy animals in trains passing by, there has never been a scientific explanation yet, just very plausible hunches.

Warning: Although fun is fun, a test done mid March of 2003 concluded that using the term ‘purple fluffy animals’ greatly decreases the level of humor and fun found in articles.

Notables[edit | edit source]

Fun was officially outlawed by the Catholic Church in 995 A.D., and replaced with guilt, embarrassment, and a procreation requirement.
By popular census, 2007’s most fun thing was launching Dick Cheney to the moon, 2006’s most fun thing was claimed to be «Scientology». 2005’s was kitten huffing, and 2004 was so much fun, people actually forgot what was, indeed, so fun.
There are many points in this article that are not fun. YOU can help by leaving. Like stated before, fun is against the law.

Note: Crimes vary by jurisdiction. Not all types are listed here.

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Fun

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FUN

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WHAT DOES FUN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fun

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CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FUN

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