Humour
WordNet
noun
(1) The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
"She didn't appreciate my humor"
"You can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
(2) The quality of being funny
"I fail to see the humor in it"
(3) The liquid parts of the body
(4) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
"The humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
(5) A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
(6) A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
"Whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"
"He was in a bad humor"
verb
(7) Put into a good mood
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Moist vapour, moisture.
- 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.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 147:
- A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.
- M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40:
- For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 147:
- Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
- One's state of mind or disposition; one's mood.
- He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon.
- The quality in events, speech or writing which is seen as funny, or creates amusement, such as a joke, satire, parody, etc.
Verb
- To pacify by indulging.
- I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.