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humour Definition

hu·mour (hyo̵̅o̅′mər)

noun, transitive verb

Brit. humor

humour Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • inject: This he does by injecting surreal humor into the bookshop.
  • combine: So: The Sagas: Celtic humor combined with Nordic pride?
  • appreciate: We will also be exploring if there is a difference in the humor appreciated by boys and girls.
  • mix: Mixing humor with important spiritual statements it seems was taboo on albums, but ok in the pulpit.
  • capture: I use watercolor and Ink for my work and try to capture humor in what i produce.
  • add: I just want to add that humor is the best way to deal with things like talking on the phone.

Adjective modifier

  • wry: The local people in their wry humor have given the well another name: that of ' Slavering Sall ' !
  • deadpan: As with his previous film, Kitchen Stories ( 2003 ), Hamer suffuses Factotum with an unflinching deadpan humor.
  • tongue-in-cheek: All the work is impregnated by a desire to mix sharp observations with a tongue-in-cheek humor.
  • quirky: The simple story means this really is just mindless fun with some quirky humor.
  • surreal: This he does by injecting surreal humor into the bookshop.
  • bawdy: Full of bawdy humor, the film follows the amorous adventures of Tom Jones on his travels through 18th Century E. .

Modifies a noun

  • failure: Street parking is tolerated, but local residents tend to have a sense of humor failure if you obstruct their driveways!
  • column: For some time now I have been writing a weekly humor column for the Essex Courier.

Noun used with modifier

  • gallows: Gallows humor, and a couple of pints while watching the news.
  • slapstick: FUMOFFU features loads of slapstick humor, leavened by romantic misunderstandings and the occasional round of gunfire.
  • absurdist: His relaxed absurdist humor has made his castle joke a local legend.
  • seaside: Full of music hall, seaside postcard humor, this is smut at its best.
  • trademark: Yet there is definitely laughter in the dark, as throughout The Vanity Set Sclavunos trademark gallows humor just keeps on swinging.
  • postcard: Full of music hall, seaside postcard humor, this is smut at its best.
humour Quotes

Every known class of refusal was successfully exhibited. Onehorse endeavoured to climbtherailsintothe Grand Stand; another, having stoppeddeadatthecritical point, swung round, and returned in consternation to the starting-point, with hisrider hanging likea locket around his neck. Another, dowered with a sense of humour

—Martin Ross

Oh! it is onlya novel!†only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineationof itsvarieties,theliveliesteffusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

—Austen,Jane

Thething isit'sreally hard tobe room-mateswith people if your suitcases are much better than theirsöif yours are really good and theirs aren't.You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humour, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do.

—Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)

Cynicism is humour in ill-health.

—Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

'Humour,' he said,'is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.' SeeWordsworth 925:10.

—Thurber,James Grover

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms, its humour, its music.How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed, that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.

—Rollins, Sonny (TheodoreWalter)

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Hissensuality has all drifted intosexual vanity, delight for being the candletothemoths, with a dash of intellectual curiosity to give flavour to his tickled vanity† His incompleteness as a thinker, his shallow and vulgar view of many human relationshipsöthe lack of a sterner kind of humour which would show him the dreariness of his farce and the total absence of proportion and inadequateness in some of his ideasöall these defects came largely from the flippant and worthless self- complacency brought about by the worship of rather second-rate women.

—Webb, (Martha) Beatrice ne¤  e Potter

   Those grave fellows are my aversion who sift everything with the utmost nicety, and find the malignity of a lie in a piece of humour, pushed a little beyond exact truth.

—Steele, Sir Richard

I have no humour to marry; I love to lie o' both sides of the bed myself; and again, o'th'other side.

—Dekker,Thomas

: Ihavea finesense oftheridiculous, but nosense of humour. 9

—Albee, Edward Franklin, III

Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.

—Pryor, Richard

My final word, before I'm done, Is 'Cancer can be rather fun'. Thanks to the nurses and Nye Bevan The NHS is quite like heaven Provided one confronts the tumour With a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt one till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts.

—Haldane,J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson)

Pap warn't in a good humoröso he was his natural self.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens