A funfair is the British and Irish term for a travelling amusement park — that annual spectacle of flashing lights, rickety rides, candy floss, and overpriced hook-a-duck stalls that rolls into town on a lorry convoy and transforms a car park or common into a pocket-sized carnival. The word perfectly captures the combination of fun and festivity, and it carries a nostalgic warmth for anyone who spent childhood evenings screaming on the Waltzer or trying to win a goldfish.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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The funfair set up on the seafront every August Bank Holiday weekend and the whole town turned out.
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(UK, Ireland) A travelling amusement park.
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