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Humour

[hyoo-mer]

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noun, verb (used with object), Chiefly British.

humor.

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See -or¹.

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His humour was both a gift and an art that brought joy to all who knew him.

The timetables should be regarded as feeble attempts at humour written by overworked bureaucratic underlings.

There may, though, be a sinister reality behind the humour.

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His humour was both a gift and an art that brought joy to all who knew him.

The timetables should be regarded as feeble attempts at humour written by overworked bureaucratic underlings.

There may, though, be a sinister reality behind the humour.

The male neuroscientist in the video said he was surprised at how humour could be used to distract attention.

Caroline's humour and eye for details are astounding.

Turning everything to wit or humour is a strategy for survival and a redeeming route to acceptance and popularity.

Stoicism and gentle humour are the qualities attributed to it.

Because men are more likely to share their humour with women than vice versa.

Thank you for reminding us of the obsolescence of them and their mindset, and doing so with such humour and brevity.

The film's outrageous deadpan humour recalls the early efforts of its.

It sorely misses the irony and humour provided by the narrator in the book.

His personable manner and good humour won him these distinctions.

But his sweetness, humour and independence were backed by an odd childlike obduracy.

Humour in the ads is a recent innovation, but parodies of them are plentiful.

Even directions can be managed as long as you maintain a sense of humour and patience.

The film is not afraid of injecting humour into this unique origination myth.

The whole point of satire is to convey a serious under the guise of humour.

With humour and a sense of romance, she has written an intellectually bracing travelogue of literary adventures.

He was larger than life and had a beautiful spirit, a great sense of humour that will live on in the people that really knew him.

But while the humour is a treat, it is the story that really matters.

McCain has gotten so desperate it's almost beyond the point of humour.

The central character is a likeable and dedicated policeman with a dry sense of humour.

When the work was done, she liked a party and had a broad sense of humour.

It is fair to predict that they will do so without violence and with considerable good humour.

Black humour and self-deprecation replaced the self-congratulation of past years.

They will watch from the sidelines and accept the preordained results with grim humour.

But plenty of the humour comes from situations that are uncomfortably plausible.

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World English Dictionary

humour or humor (ˈhjuːmə)

—n
1.	the quality of being funny
2.	Also called: sense of humour the ability to appreciate or express that which is humorous
3.	situations, speech, or writings that are thought to be humorous
4.	a. a state of mind; temper; mood
	b. (in combination): ill humour; good humour
5.	temperament or disposition
6.	a caprice or whim
7.	any of various fluids in the body, esp the aqueous humour and vitreous humour
8.	archaic Also called: cardinal humour any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
9.	out of humour in a bad mood

—vb
10.	to attempt to gratify; indulge: he humoured the boy's whims
11.	to adapt oneself to: to humour someone's fantasies

[C14: from Latin humor liquid; related to Latin ūmēre to be wet, Old Norse vökr moist, Greek hugros wet]

humor or humor

—n

—vb

[C14: from Latin humor liquid; related to Latin ūmēre to be wet, Old Norse vökr moist, Greek hugros wet]

'humourful or humor

—*adj*

'humorful or humor

—*adj*

'humourless or humor

—*adj*

'humorless or humor

—*adj*

'humourlessness or humor

—n

'humorlessness or humor

—n

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