"funnyman" meaning in English

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      "word": "straight man"
    }
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        "2": "funny",
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      "expansion": "funny + -man",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From funny + -man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "funnymen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "funnyman (plural funnymen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "To get the party started a professional funnyman was hired.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 December 16, Albert Williams, “Club Dates: Bruce Vilanch returns from Hollywood”, in Chicago Reader:",
          "text": "From 1970 to 1974 he was one of the most familiar funnymen in Chicago: by day a heavily promoted personality journalist, by night a \"sit-down comic\" with a devoted following.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "comedian"
      ],
      "id": "en-funnyman-en-noun-~4PmbBph",
      "links": [
        [
          "comedian",
          "comedian"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) comedian"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "funnywoman"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "funny man"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "funnyman"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "straight man"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "funny",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "funny + -man",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From funny + -man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "funnymen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "funnymen"
      },
      "expansion": "funnyman (plural funnymen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "funnywoman"
    }
  ],
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "To get the party started a professional funnyman was hired.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 December 16, Albert Williams, “Club Dates: Bruce Vilanch returns from Hollywood”, in Chicago Reader:",
          "text": "From 1970 to 1974 he was one of the most familiar funnymen in Chicago: by day a heavily promoted personality journalist, by night a \"sit-down comic\" with a devoted following.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "comedian"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "comedian",
          "comedian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) comedian"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "funny man"
    }
  ],
  "word": "funnyman"
}