HUMOUR
ADJECTIVES
► CANNY of humour: quiet, sly → 1876 Sc.
► HUMORIFIC producing humour; humorous → 1819
► IN ONE’S BIAS in good humour, at one’s best → 1893 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► BIN mood, humour → 1809 Sc.
► EEMIR mood, humour → 1910 Sc.
► FUNNIMENT nonsense; silliness; humour; the fact of being fun or funny ..1822 colloq.
► FUNNIOSITY humour, jocularity → 1876
► HARNESS temper; humour → 1838 Eng. dial.
► HUMORESQUE, THE that which is humorous or playful, esp. in literary or musical style → 1867
► HUMORISTICS humorous writings → 1886
► KANT humour, state of mind → 1908 Sc.
► KARM a bad humour, agitation → 1866 Sc.
► LAG a humour, mood, temper; a state of excitement or high spirits → 1899 Sc.
► SPARK vivacity, enthusiasm, or humour → 1939
► TICKLE BONE a sense of humour → 1938 Amer. dial.
► TID a humour, mood, or fancy to do something → a1774 Sc.
► TIFT condition, order; condition of mind, mood, humour → 1717 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► YARN humour, mood → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YUKDOM the realm of comedy; humour → 1990 US sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BARD a person with a good sense of humour → 1971 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
PHRASES
► CRACKING BUT FACKING conveying hard factual information in the guise of jokes and humour → 1930 African-American sl.
VERBS
► CRAB to cross; to put out of humour or temper; to irritate, to anger, to enrage, to provoke → 1400 obs.
► DODDLE to fondle, to pet; to humour, to spoil children → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HANG THE FIDDLE BEHIND THE DOOR to leave one’s good humour behind one → 1836 Ireland
► SOOTHE vb. to blandish, to cajole, or please by agreement or assent; to flatter in this way; to humour → 1573 obs.
► TICKLE A PERSON’S FUNNY BONE to appeal to a person’s sense of humour → 1887
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