funny farm
funny farm noun: an insane asylum.
Noun
funny farm (plural funny farms)
- An insane asylum.
- Paddy the Duke was right. I had one more "tour of duty" to put in at the funny farm. They turned me loose a few days after he left, sometime in the winter months of 1959, but in a little more than a year's time I would be back at Avalon Valley; and I would be a very sick man.1968, Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes, page 117
- Synonyms:
- nuthouse, bedlam, bin, booby-hatch, booby house, bughouse, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, happy hotel, insane asylum
Synonyms of funny farm
- nuthouse
- bin
- booby-hatch
- booby house
- bughouse
- crazy house
- cuckoo's nest
- happy hotel
- laughing academy
- loony bin
22 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- mental home
- grippy sock vacation
- mental health center
- mental health hospital
- mental hospital
- mental institution
- nutfarm
- psych
- psych hospital
- psychiatric hospital
- psychopathic hospital
- psychiatric ward
- psych ward
- special hospital
- Tanjung Rambutan
- whack shack
- bedlam
- insane asylum
- lunatic asylum
- madhouse
- mental asylum
- mental hotel
Forms of funny farm
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Questions about funny farm
- What does funny farm mean?
- Funny farm means an insane asylum.
- What part of speech is funny farm?
- Funny farm is a noun.
- What is the plural of funny farm?
- The plural of funny farm is funny farms.
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