- 1搞怪的、瘋瘋癲癲又好笑的、耍寶的。像那種無厘頭喜劇的搞笑法，帶點喜歡的口氣，不是罵人
Zany describes something silly and strange in a way that makes people laugh — wild, unpredictable, a bit mad, but harmless and fun. A zany comedy is full of ridiculous situations. A zany friend does things nobody expects, like turning up in a chicken costume for no reason. A zany hat is one that is far too bright and too big to be serious. The feeling behind zany is warm. It is not an insult. If you call someone crazy you might be worried about them; if you call them zany you are enjoying them. That is the key to the word: it always carries a little affection, and it always points at something funny. Notice too that zany means silly in an ENERGETIC way. A quiet strange person is odd or eccentric, not zany. Zany has arms . It is informal, and it is used most often about comedy, cartoons, advertisements and children's shows — the sort of things that are trying hard to be fun. And that is where it gets its slight problem. Because it, zany can sound a bit tired now, or even a little forced, like someone announcing how funny they are about to be. Older speakers use it comfortably; younger speakers may find it slightly dated. It can also be a noun, meaning a clown or a foolish person, but that use is rare and old-fashioned today.
組成From Italian. In old Italian comedy shows there was a stock clown character called a zanni — a servant who bumbled about and copied his master. Zanni was a Venetian nickname for Giovanni, the Italian form of the name John. So the word travelled from a common man's name, to a clown character, to French, and then into English as a word for anything funny and foolish.
同家族的字
- Giovannithe Italian name Zanni came from — the same name in a different shape
- Johnthe English form of that same old name
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
zanyadj/ˈzeɪni/
- 1
Unusual and awkward in a funny, comical manner; outlandish; clownish.
- And I will admit now but never then that, more than once, listening to the Viennese chattering their zany German on the pavements, or taking himself to one of the struggling small theatres that were cropping up in cellars and bombed houses...
- Press articles emphasized his [Dizzy Gillespie's] ambassadorial role and drew attention to the paradox that he was a shrewd musician and leader despite his zany image.
- 2
Ludicrously or incongruously comical.
zanynoun/ˈzeɪni/
- 1
archaicA fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.
- Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany.
- O great restorer of the good old stage, / Preacher at once, and Zany of thy age!
zanyverb/ˈzeɪni/
- 1
obsoleteTo mimic foolishly.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。