subs. (popular).—The elbow, with the passage of the ulnar nerve connecting the two bones: the extremity of the humerus.

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (Blondie Jacke of Shrewsberrie).

        They have pull’d you down flat on your back!
        And they smack, and they thwack,
        Till your ‘FUNNY BONES’ crack,
As if you were stretched on the rack.

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  1853.  THACKERAY, A Shabby Genteel Story, ch. ix. He had merely received a blow on that part which anatomists call the FUNNY BONE.

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  1870.  Lowell Courier.

        Thanks for your kind condolence; I would write
A merry rhyme in answer if I might;
But then—confound the fall!—the very stone
That broke my humerus hurt my FUNNY BONE!

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