GCIDE: Defining Fun using "exact" search strategy.
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| Source: gcide | Fun \Fun\ (f[u^]n), n. [Perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. fonn pleasure.] Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun." --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
{To make fun of}, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.
{in fun}, jokingly; not seriously; for amusement.
{like fun}, definitely not; -- used adverbially, mostly to contradict a prior assertion; A: "He says he won't do it again." -- B: "Like fun he won't.". [1913 Webster + PJC]
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| Source: gcide | Fun \Fun\ (f[u^]n), adj. Of or pertaining to fun; causing pleasure or amusement. [informal] [PJC]
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