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Humor

//hjuː.mə(ɹ)// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    US spelling of humour. US, alt-of, uncountable, usually

    "He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon."

  2. 2
    the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous wordnet
  3. 3
    the quality of being funny wordnet
  4. 4
    the liquid parts of the body wordnet
  5. 5
    (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state wordnet
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  1. 6
    a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter wordnet
  2. 7
    a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    US spelling of humour. US, alt-of

    "I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true."

  2. 2
    put into a good mood wordnet

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