"funniment" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1825, Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes, volume III, London: George Virtue, page 33",
          "text": "For the funniments of the fair, I confess I have little relish. Springing a rattle, I always deemed something too serious for a joke; and no nautical gentleman ever yet laughed at having his back scratched.",
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          "ref": "1846, The Pictorial Times, page 205",
          "text": "[…]; and at some of Barry’s funniments the Prince of Wales and his royal sister laughed[…]",
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          "ref": "1930, Harry Randall, Harry Randall, Old Time Comedian, page 136",
          "text": "His disguise as the Baron Mugwump also lent itself to much funniment.",
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          "ref": "1930, Harley Granville-Barker, “Love’s Labour’s Lost”, in Prefaces to Shakespeare",
          "text": "Therefore he has Berowne leave the stage first, lets Costard lag behind for a little solitary funniment, and then bolt after Berowne. If the funniment raises a laugh, that breaks contact, as it were, and continuity.",
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          "ref": "1990 September 11, Wally Trabing, “With humor there is life”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel, 134th year, number 219, Santa Cruz, Calif., page A-2",
          "text": "Mrs. Levine, mother of former Councilman Arnold Levine, totes around an array of jokes and general funniments.",
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        "Drollery, jesting, a funny saying or action."
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  "word": "funniment"
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          "ref": "1825, Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes, volume III, London: George Virtue, page 33",
          "text": "For the funniments of the fair, I confess I have little relish. Springing a rattle, I always deemed something too serious for a joke; and no nautical gentleman ever yet laughed at having his back scratched.",
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