To feel funny, verb. phr. (common).—To be overtaken with (1) emotion, or (2) drink: e.g., to wax amorous, or get the flavour (q.v.); to begin to be the worse for liquor. Funny Bit, subs. phr. (venery).—The female pudendum. Funny Bone, subs. (popular).—The elbow, with the passage of the ulnar nerve connecting the two bones: the extremity of the humerus. 1837. Barham, I. L. (Blondie Jacke). They have pull’d you down flat on your back! And they smack, and they thwack, Till your funny bones crack, As if you were stretch’d on the rack. 1853. Thackeray, ‘Shabby Genteel Story,’ ch. ix. He had merely received a blow on that part which anatomists call the funny bone. 1870. Lowell Courier. Thanks for your kind condolence; I would write A merry rhyme in answer if I might; But then—confound the fall!—the very stone That broke my humerus hurt my funny bone! Funny-man, subs. (common).—A circus clown. Also a joker in private life. 1851–61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor., III., p. 129. What I’ve earned as clown, or the funny man. Fur, subs. (venery).—The pubic hair. For synonyms, see Fleece. To make the fur fly.—See Fly. To have one’s fur out, verb. phr. (Winchester College).—To be angry. For synonyms, see Nab the rust. Fur and Feathers, subs. phr. (sporting).—Generic for game. Fur-below, subs. (venery).—The female pubic hair. For synonyms, see Fleece. 16(?). Old Catch. Adam caught Eve by the fur-below, And that’s the oldest catch I know. Furioso, subs. (old).—A blusterer; Ital., furioso = raving. 1692. Hacket. Life of Archbishop Williams, ii., p. 218. A violent man and a furioso was deaf to all this. English Synonyms.—Barker; blower; bobadil; bouncer; bulldozer (American); cacafogo; Captain Bounce; Captain Bluff; Captain Grand; Captain Hackam; cutter; fire-eater; hector; huff-cap; humguffin; gasser; gasman; mouth; mouth-almighty; pissfire; pump-thunder; ramper; roarer; ruffler; shitefire; slangwhanger; spitfire; swashbuckler; swasher; teazer; Timothy Tearcat. French Synonyms.—Un avale-tout-cru (popular: = an eat-all-he-kills); un fendart or fendart (popular: = a cutter); un avaleur de charrettes fereés (popular); un mata (printers’: from matador = a bull-fighter); un bousineur (popular: bousin = uproar, shindy); un bourreau de crânes (military): = a scull-destroyer; un bœufier (popular: = an ugly customer); un mauvais gas (familiar: from garçon); un homme qui a l’air de vouloir tout avaler (familiar: a man who looks as though he’d swallow the world); un croquet (popular). Spanish Synonyms.—Perdonavidas; fierabras (fiera = a wild beast); botarate; macareno cacafuoco (= a shitfire). Furk, Ferk, Firk, verb. (Winchester College).—To expel; to send (as on a message); to drive away. Also to furk up and furk down. [Old English fercian, High German ferken, Middle English to lead or send away.] Furmen, subs. (old).—Aldermen. From their fur-trimmed robes.