funny-looking

English

Etymology

funny +‎ looking. First use appears c. 1807.

Adjective

funny-looking (comparative more funny-looking, superlative most funny-looking)

1. (informal, somewhat derogatory) Having a strange or unusual appearance.
2. (informal, somewhat derogatory) Having a comical or humorous appearance.
   • 1807, H. Ellen Browning, A Girl's Wandering in Hungary, page 124:

     The dairy was a funny-looking place.

   • 1827, Amelia Opie, Madeline, page 71:

     ... but you are so comical, so merry, and so funny-looking, that I should never have thought you were married;

   • 1848, Albert Smith, Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth (contributors), Bentley's Miscellany - Volume 24, page 336:

     ... that funny-looking man, with his long hair, sunken eyes, red face, and high collar

   • 1925, Bessie Blackstone Coleman, Willis Lemon Uhl, James Fleming Hosic, The Pathway to Reading - Book 3, page 231:

     At last a funny-looking old gentleman hired her, and they started off to his funny-looking old house.

   • 1979, Gerald Mast, The Comic Mind - Comedy and the Movies, page 194:

     Semon's comedy was merely that of a funny and funny-looking character who pulled any familiar joke out of the film gag bag.

   • 1992, Thomas Wolfe, James William Clark (Jr.), The Lost Boy - A Novella, page 47:

     My lord! when I go uptown and walk down the street and look at all these funny-looking little boys and girls hanging around the drug-store ...

   • 1998, Nancy A. Walker (editor), What's So Funny? - Humor in American Culture, page 245:

     But they (Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, for example) must depend on funny-looking comic personalities rather than human pretzels, balls, and rubber bands.