funny-looking

English

Etymology

From funny +‎ looking. First use appears c. 1807. See citations page.

Adjective

funny-looking (comparative funnier-looking or more funny-looking, superlative funniest-looking or most funny-looking)

  1. (informal, idiomatic, somewhat derogatory) Having a strange or unusual appearance.
    • 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian‎[1], archived from the original on 7 June 2025:
      Donaldson is not by any means one of God’s chosen entertainment-industry stars. He’s not especially handsome, and neither is he particularly funny-looking. At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a growth spurt and hasn’t quite settled into himself.
  2. (informal, idiomatic, somewhat derogatory) Having a comical or humorous appearance.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:funny-looking.
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