humour
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noun- 1.
(UK, uncountable, usually)(chiefly uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.
The sensitive subject was treated with humour, but in such way that no one was offended.
Đồng nghĩa: amusingness, comedy, comicality, wit
- 2.
(UK, uncountable, usually)A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon.
Đồng nghĩa: mood
- 3.
(UK, archaic, historical, uncountable, usually)(archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
Đồng nghĩa: bodily fluid
- 4.
(UK, uncountable, usually)(medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
- 5.
(UK, obsolete, uncountable, usually)Moist vapour, moisture.
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verb- 1.
(UK, transitive)To pacify by indulging.
I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
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ine-pro From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, humour, from Latin hūmor, correctly ūmor (liquid), from hūmeō, correctly ūmeō (to be moist). The h in these words, which was silent in late Classical Latin, is folk etymological, due to the erroneous association with the word humus (soil).