The English language contains many peculiar sounding words which can be funny when used in a sentence. This page presents a list of random funny nouns with examples that can be used in Mad Libs or to describe people.
List of 95 Funny Nouns
The word “fun” relates to something that causes amusement or laughter, and there are many one-word or multiple-word nouns in English that sound strange or amusing when used in a specific context.
For example, when injected into a conversation or game such as Mad Libs, these words cause amusement and laughter because of how they are written or pronounced.
Below is a list of some of the funniest English nouns:
- Baffoon
- Bagpipes
- Barnacle
- Billy goat
- Bison
- Black magic
- Boa constrictor
- Boogeyman
- Borderline psychopath
- Brass knuckles
- Bread and butter
- Chicanery
- Chocolate eclair
- Choo-choo
- Class-clown
- Cloven hoof
- Covert operation
- Creepy-crawly
- Dance of death
- Dangling modifier
- Doohickey
- Elves
- Evil eye
- Fish and chips
- Garbage dump
- Gargoyle
- Gizmo
- Goblet
- Godmother
- Goose
- Gooseberry bush
- Grandfather clock
- Holy terror
- Hood ornament
- Horseradish
- Houses of parliament
- Internal combustion
- Joker
- Kidder
- Law of the land
- Lawn furniture
- Lemon tree
- Liquid nitrogen
- Loose cannon
- Mango
- Meat wagon
- Megabucks
- Moose
- Night watchman
- Nuclear explosion
- Nutter
- Octopuses
- Packaged goods
- Pandemonium
- Paparazzi
- Path of least resistance
- Peer of the realm
- Peripheral vision
- Private security force
- Professional wrestling
- Rainbow trout
- Raw vegetable
- Road-kill
- Rocket launcher
- Sad sack
- Sasquatch
- Scientific instrument
- Search warrant
- Sense of direction
- Shooting gallery
- Skin and bones
- Smoked salmon
- Snake pit
- Son of god
- Stink bomb
- Supernatural being
- Superstructure
- Swampland
- Tabby cat
- Tail feather
- Teddy bear
- Tentacle
- Thunderbird
- Tumbleweed
- Ultraviolet radiation
- Underworld
- Vandyke beard
- Voodoo
- War zone
- Wastepaper basket
- Werewolf
- Whacko
- Whammy
- Wise cracker
- Wizardry
We have further explained our top picks at the bottom of the article.
Funny Nouns for Mad Libs
Mad Libs is a popular game in schools and kindergartens worldwide and is an excellent way of expanding a child`s vocabulary through gamification.
In Mad Libs, a text has some of the words removed, usually nouns and adjectives, which are then replaced with new words by the players of the game. The resulting text at the end of a match has random funny nouns and adjectives and is often amusing when read out loud.
Here are ten words that can be used in a game of Mad Libs:
- Gargoyle
- Goblet
- Gooseberry bush
- Lemon tree
- Swampland
- Teddy bear
- Tentacle
- Thunderbird
- Voodoo
- Wizardry
Funny Nouns to Describe a Person
Many funny nouns can be used to describe a person or people, some more complimentary than others. There are words that can describe every type of personality and character imaginable, some more common than others.
Many funny nouns to describe people are metaphors, often involving animals. Therefore, it is not always easy to ascertain their meaning based on the original meaning of the words.
Here are ten funny nouns you can use to describe people:
- Baffoon
- Borderline psychopath
- Class-clown
- Joker
- Kidder
- Loose cannon
- Nutter
- Skin and bones
- Whacko
- Wise cracker
Funny Collective Nouns
Collective nouns are words used to refer to a group of things and have existed in the English language for hundreds of years.
Collective nouns are often funny and nonsensical. Many relate to animals because they originate in the hunting culture of the late middle ages and are not commonly used in everyday speech.
However, many collective nouns are still used daily, and many funny collective nouns relate to things other than animals.
Here is a list of ten of the funniest collective nouns:
- A bed of clams
- A bike of bees
- A comedy of errors
- A culture of bacteria
- A family of sardines
- A flight of stairs
- A flock of tourists
- A nest of rumours
- A school of fish
- An army of caterpillars
Funny Plural Nouns
Similarly to collective nouns, there are also many funny plural nouns in English. Plural nouns are used to indicate a plural amount of something, most commonly by adding “s” or “es” to the end of a noun.
Some of these words, especially irregular ones, can be strange or amusing to readers because of how they sound or are written.
Here are ten of the funniest English plural nouns:
- Bagpipes
- Boogymen
- Creepy crawlies
- Elves
- Geese
- Moose
- Octopuses
- Rainbow trout
- Stink bombs
- Werewolves
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