"tickle someone's funny bone" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-tickle someone's funny bone.ogg [Australia] Forms: tickles someone's funny bone [present, singular, third-person], tickling someone's funny bone [participle, present], tickled someone's funny bone [participle, past], tickled someone's funny bone [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=tickle someone's funny bone}} tickle someone's funny bone (third-person singular simple present tickles someone's funny bone, present participle tickling someone's funny bone, simple past and past participle tickled someone's funny bone)
  1. (idiomatic) To amuse; to make someone smile, to make someone laugh, to be humorous to someone. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to amuse; to make someone laugh or smile): kutittaa jonkun nauruhermoja (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-tickle_someone's_funny_bone-en-verb-Y71vq3Lv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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