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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fun/fʌn/
noun light-hearted pleasure or amusement.

■ a source of fun: people-watching is great fun.

■ playfulness or good humour: she's full of fun.

adjective informal entertaining or enjoyable. verb (funs, funning, funned) N. Amer. informal joke or tease.
– phrases
in fun not intended seriously.
make fun of tease or laugh at in a mocking or unkind way.
– origin C17 (denoting a trick or hoax): from obs. fun ‘to cheat or hoax’, dial. var. of ME fon ‘make a fool of, be a fool’, rel. to fon ‘a fool’, of unknown origin; cf. fond.
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