funny house

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   pejorative terms for an insane asylum

   SynonymsBedlambooby hatchcrazy housecuckoo's nestfunny farmloony binmadhousenut housenuthousesanatoriumsnake pit

   Broadermental hospital

Questions about funny house

What does funny house mean?

funny house means "pejorative terms for an insane asylum".

What is another word for funny house?

Close synonyms include Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is funny house a common word?

funny house is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.