Definition of "funsize"
funsize
adjective
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Quotations
We’re gonna have hollow chocolate eggs, ones that you can open up, and they’ve got scrummy things inside, you know, like Smarties and small Mars Bars. Not the big ones. Small ones, ’cos the big ones won’t fit, you see. Call them ‘funsize’, Lord, because they are fun to eat.
1991, Eddie Izzard, Amassed Hysteria!: A Collection of Great Comedy Sketches from Hysteria!, Hysteria 2! and Hysteria 3!, Penguin Books, pages 42–43
Your child should take at least 20 g carbohydrate (2 exchanges) beforehand in a readily absorbable form, eg, chocolate-coated biscuit (eg, 1 Penguin, 2 Jaffa cakes); funsize Mars bar or Twix (1 finger) or KitKat (2 fingers); 1 glass cola or lemonade (sweetened type); 4 squares ordinary chocolate.
1992, Jane Rossiter, Rosemary Seddon, The Diabetic Kids’ Cookbook (Positive Health Guides), revised edition, page 26
But if you want chocolate every day- either have just a couple of squares of a bar, or a ‘funsize’ bar, or how about getting that chocolatey taste another, lower-fat way – say a low-fat instant chocolate drink.
1993, Judith Wills, “Staying Slim”, in Complete Speed Slimming System: Your Ultimate Guide to Quickest-Ever Fat Loss and Figure Reshaping, London: Vermilion, page 120
Indeed overall, only those with the sharpest of minds are likely to come out on top – although the ability to rapidly carve each and every opponent into a cloud of funsize strips of bleeding flesh will also come in handy.
1998 March, “Die By The Sword”, in PC Zone, section “It’s Just a Flesh”, page 6
A second miniature sheet, 75×55 mm, containing No. 1142, was only available as a promotional item connected with the purchase of funsize bars of various Mars products or at face value from the Philatelic Bureau.
1999, Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue; Part 1: British Commonwealth 2000, 102nd edition, volumes 1 (Great Britain and Countries A to I), London, Ringwood: Stanley Gibbons Ltd, page 795
Recently, there has been more of an emphasis on diversifying existing brands – launching orange or mint versions of established bars, for example – and also a strategy of fitting new products and their packaging to specific lifestyle occasions, whether they be a formal or relaxed social occasion, watching TV, driving a car, light snacking during the day (hence mini or funsize bars) or using a chocolate bar as a meal replacement or manly snack.
2002, Tim Richardson, “Chocolate Money”, in Sweets, Bloomsbury, page 23
He pours himself another drink, roysh, sits down at the table and puts his head in his hands, so I get up, grab a pack of Kettle Chips and a handful of, like, funsize Mars bars out of the cupboard and stort moseying up to my room.
2003, Paul Howard, “‘Ross is, like, such an arrogant bastard.’ Discuss.”, in The Teenage Dirtbag Years, Dublin: The O’Brien Press, published 2004, page 26
We ply them with alcohol, fill them with chicken salad and funsize bits of pizza, and pay some poor sod of a model to parade in front of them in our stuff, crossing our fingers that they might actually put in an order.
2006, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Anonymous, Fashion Babylon, London, Toronto, Ont., Sydney, N.S.W., Auckland, Johannesburg: Bantam Press, page 21
I notice that the big bowl containing funsize packs of Smarties and mini Mars Bars has undergone a change of contents and that, this year, the lucky winners are receiving Wildberry Fruit Leather strips and gelatine-free Gummy VegeBears from Fresh & Wild.
2006, Rachel Johnson, Notting Hell, Windsor/Paragon, page 250
We are all brainwashed by food manufacturers in this country – unhealthy food is marketed as Happy Meals, Sunny Delight and funsize chocolates, but it doesn’t take long to change our relationship with food.
2008 February 28, Marisa Peer, quotee, “Trancing queen helps starts to fight the flab”, in Kingston Guardian, page 22
There’s a pan loaf courtesy of Pat the Baker, cans of Coke courtesy of Pat the Barman, six individual pork pies, a bag of funsize Mars bars…
2008 November, Mark Wale, “Bad Sunday”, in Declan Meade, Emily Firetog, editors, Freshly Brewed: Twelve Short Plays from Bewley’s Café Theatre, The Stinging Fly, page 35
My bicep, my poor little cluster of nearly muscle is being pressed into a funsize turkey nugget and I’m starting to perhaps regret my outing with this bunch of Brentford fans who have that slightly edgier reputation.
2009, Spencer Austin, “The Macc Daddy”, in I Am the Gloryhunter: One Man’s Quest for the Ultimate Football Season, Know The Score, pages 185–186
These appear, alongside selections more mundane (broccoli) and mysterious (“funsize” sausage), in an inventory of some 60-odd potential ingredients for the main course: Sichuan dry pot.
2016 December 1, Ligaya Mishan, “Sichuan Dry Pot, from Subtle to Scorching, at MaLa Project”, in The New York Times
“For the most part I knew the songs were not gonna be used in their entirety,” he [Graham Coxon] adds, “so I did mini versions – intro, verse, chorus, instrumental, out. It was an SAS job – very funsize, like a little chocolate bar.”
2018 April, Tom Pinnock, “Revelations: Graham Coxon”, in Uncut, take 251, page 24
Physicists from across the country contribute short articles, featuring stunning visuals and easy to follow explanations of cutting edge research, as well as “funsize activities” to explore physics concepts.
2020 May, Leah Poffenberger, “Sparking the Joy of Physics at Home”, in American Physical Society, volume 29, number 5