"semi-funny" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From semi- + funny.",
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          "ref": "1867 May 8, ““Metamorphoses.””, in The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review, volume V, number 699, page 3:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1874 November 8, The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume 28, number 77, Chicago, Ill., page 10:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2014 June 22, Greg Schwem, “Sorry, Mila Kunis, we are both pregnant”, in Naples Daily News, 90th year, number 333, page 8D:",
          "text": "Kunis then grabbed a microphone and launched into a semi-funny sketch in which she demanded that men stop saying, “We’re pregnant.”",
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        "Partially funny."
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          "word": "semifunny"
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          "ref": "1867 May 8, ““Metamorphoses.””, in The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review, volume V, number 699, page 3:",
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          "ref": "1874 November 8, The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume 28, number 77, Chicago, Ill., page 10:",
          "text": "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.",
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