humor

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humour
ˈhjuːmə Listen
Meanings
noun
  • the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.
    E.g. his tales are full of humour
  • a mood or state of mind.
    E.g. her good humour vanished
  • each of the four chief fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile (choler), and black bile (melancholy)) that were thought to determine a person's physical and mental qualities by the relative proportions in which they were present.
verb
  • comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be.
    E.g. she was always humouring him to prevent trouble