/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Fun
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To make fun of. To make a butt of; to ridicule; to play pranks on one. (Compare Irish fonn, delight.)
Like fun. Thoroughly, energetically, with delight.
“Onʹy look at the dimmercrats, see what theyʹve done,
Jest simply by stickinʹ together like fun.”
Lowell: Biglow Papers (First series iv. stanza 5).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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