Noun: funny house
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Pejorative term for an insane asylum
"The old hospital was nicknamed the funny house by locals";
- Bedlam [archaic], booby hatch [N. Amer, informal], crazy house [informal], cuckoo's nest [informal], funny farm [informal], loony bin [informal], madhouse [informal], nut house [informal], nuthouse [informal], bughouse [N. Amer, informal], lunatic asylum
Derived forms: funny houses
Type of: asylum, insane asylum [archaic], institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital