Humours

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Definitions and meanings of "Humours"

What do we mean by humours?

The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.

A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.

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.

Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

Moist vapour, moisture.

When you laugh at something with no inherent comedic value. Urban Dictionary

A bizarre type of humour that roots from a TPOT camp named "BFTS". Some symptoms of Josey humour are: 1. Saying WTF way too much 2. Saying "lma" and "lmak" instead/with "lmao" 3. Stroke-like reactions to very weird jokes, usually replacing "WTF" with something like "WTAFYUIOAJULJIHNKML" 4. Mispelling of common words all the time 5. Big Chungus Urban Dictionary

Dry humour ,sometimes also referred to as deadpan, is a form of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done by a person, while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression. It is implied humour or indirect humour which largely depends on what the audience thinks is being said rather than anything else. Urban Dictionary

Humor that deals with unpleasant aspects of life in a bitter or ironic way Urban Dictionary

Indirect breach of the fourth wall at the end of the movie "Fight Club". When the plot comes around to the opening scene again after two hours of flashback, the Narrator (Edward Norton) states he "still hasn't anything to say", and Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) refers to this as "flashback humour". Urban Dictionary

Dead jokes like ‘go back to the kitchen’ and ‘I have kids in my basement.’ Really bad ‘waffling’ Urban Dictionary

Comedic bankruptcy,inability to either experience or create anything amusing Urban Dictionary

The majority of people are able to experience humour, i.e., to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are considered to have a sense of humour. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would likely find the behaviour induced by humour to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational. Though ultimately decided by personal taste, the extent to which a person will find something humourous depends upon a host of variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, intelligence and context. Urban Dictionary

When a (usually immature) person persistently cracks jokes about potty like things, such as tits, poo, snot, knobs etc.. Urban Dictionary

An attempt to placate or pacify one's parents. (baby boomers...slang for generation of children born following the end of the second world war). Urban Dictionary

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The word "humours" in example sentences

Moderns like to elevate the classical era as a golden period, and the Modern era as the "Renaissance" from the "Dark Ages" -- but bleeding to balance the humours is a classical practice that seems to have been largely suspended in the medieval era, even though medieval practitioners knew about Galen's four humours, and that was only resurrected in the Modern era. ❋ Richard Nokes (2006)

As a result of research which we can do no more than outline to you in summary fashion, we still hold that the complement of the humours comes from the white corpuscles. ❋ Unknown (1967)

We don’t need doctors cutting me open to drain humours anymore than we need massive industrial terraforming to drain the CO2 out of the atmosphere as far as I can see ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Such servants dwelled in the god’s castillion, harvesting and preserving the humours from the god they served. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Those men who are full of noxious humours, that is to say, full of inordinate inclination towards bodily comfort and towards foreign and creaturely consolations, can fall into four kinds of fever. ❋ 1293-1381 (1916)

It moves not my spleen to behold the multitude in their proper humours, that is, in their fits of folly and madness; as well understanding that wisdom is not prophan’d unto the World, and ’tis the priviledge of a few to be Vertuous. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Generally he succeeded in seizing the manners of his own age and nation: in itself this was deserving of praise; but even here he confined himself too much to external peculiarities, to the singularities and affectations of the modish tone which were then called humours, and which from their nature are as transient as dresses. ❋ August Wilhelm Schlegel (1806)

Dead bodies (saith Dr. Hammond) after a revolution of the humours, which is completed in seventy-two hours, naturally tend to putrefaction; and the Jews say that by the fourth day after death the body is so altered that one cannot be sure it is such a person; so Maimonides in Lightfoot. ❋ Unknown (1721)

So that the right use of Comaedie, will I thinke, by no bodie be blamed; and much lesse of the high and excellent Tragedie, that openeth the greatest woundes, and sheweth forth the Ulcers that are covered with Tissue, that maketh Kings feare to be Tyrants, and Tyrants manifest their tyrannicall humours, that with stirring the affects of Admiration and Comiseration, teacheth the uncertaintie of this world, and uppon how weak foundations guilden roofes are builded: ❋ Unknown (1992)

We are subject to a repletion of humours, useless and dangerous: whether of those that are good (for even those the physicians are afraid of; and seeing we have nothing in us that is stable, they say that a too brisk and vigorous perfection of health must be abated by art, lest our nature, unable to rest in any certain condition, and not having whither to rise to mend itself, make too sudden and too disorderly a retreat; and therefore prescribe wrestlers to purge and bleed, to qualify that superabundant health), or else a repletion of evil humours, which is the ordinary cause of sickness. ❋ Michel De Montaigne (1562)

The Greek physiologist Galen believed that four "humours" — phlegm, black bile, yellow bile, and blood — accounted for all bodily functions and human behavior, an antiquated conceit that no reputable scientist would now endorse. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I hear there is controvery over the atomic-theory of the elements from some scientists who still favour the four elements and don’t let the “settled science” chorus distract you from all the gaping holes in the germ theory of disease, the four humours are a much better theory of medicine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Comedy in French Epic -- "humours" in _Garin_ 310 in the _Coronemenz Looïs_, etc. 311 ❋ W. P. Ker (N/A)

It should not be forgotten that the French epic has room for comedy, not merely in the shape of "comic relief," though that unhappily is sometimes favoured by the _chansons de geste_, and by the romances as well, but in the "humours" inseparable from all large and unpedantic fiction. ❋ W. P. Ker (N/A)

This conception of "humours," based on a physiology which was already obsolescent, takes heavily from the realism of Jonson's methods, nor does his use of a careful vocabulary of contemporary colloquialism and slang save him from a certain dryness and tediousness to modern readers. ❋ G. H. Mair (1906)

The variety of humours which is to be found in her novels is immense; and though the talk of each person separately is monotonous, the general effect is not monotony, but a very lively and agreeable diversity. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)

If we could put out of our remembrance the singular merits of "The Lady's Trial," we should consider the genius of Ford as altogether inclined to tragedy; and even there so large a proportion of the pathetic pervades the drama, that it requires the "humours" of Guzman and Fulgoso, in addition to a happy catastrophe, to warrant the name of comedy. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)

That it is not swamped with "humours" may prove that ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

"Yo [did you know] [Spongebob] is [a sponge]?" "That's some proper Ghilo Humour that." ❋ ARandomBantalope (2020)

"that's almost as big as [BIG CHUNGUS]!!!!!!! WTYRFGYHDUIUGYSHJKL" "o jeez i think [uve] got Josey Humour [lma]" "lma" ❋ QKitti (2021)

Mr.[Carson], known for his [blank] expressions while performing outrageous [stunts] on his show ' Carson Tonight ' is by far the best dry humourist i know. ❋ Sumanth Chebolu (2006)

[Black humour] is when, for example, a man takes off his belt to hang himself, and his trousers fall down. Another example of [black humour], "Suicide just isn't funny, no matter which way [you slice] it," is an effective satire at the way that suicide is treated in mainstream western culture, insinuating that attitudes towards suicide are even more [morose] or morbid than the act or mental condition leading to it. ❋ I.O.U. 68+1 (2006)

Any other [definitions] for flashback humour? ❋ Fearman (2007)

Tom: “yo [go back to the kitchen] and make me a sandwich u dishwasher😂” Rachel: “shut up you’ve got [hadi humour]” Or Rachel: “you can’t even waffle” Tom: “[ok so basically] I was playing football with my eyelashes and mud got into my windpipe which paralysed me from my phone case so I had to get my phone case repaired at the aquarium to let the blood come out from the foot of my phone which gave it superpowers and is now able to go shopping with a printer” Rachel: “wtf was that? You’ve got hadi humour.” ❋ Hannahm1333 (2020)

[HD] sufferer - [you can say that again] normal person - oh can I - repeats what he has just said HD sufferer - [no response] normal person- i see you are suffering a humour deficit problem HD sufferer- excuse me i do not understand ❋ Joel Plews (2007)

For example, young children's sense of humour may favour [slapstick], such as [Punch and Judy] puppet shows or cartoons such as [Tom and Jerry]. ❋ Death Megatron 3000 (2013)

ed: it'a not fair.. potty humour boy: [haa], you said [snot]. sarah draws a picture of a cucumber potty humour boy: haa, that's a dick. all you need is two [oranges] to make balls. ❋ Lu-luella (2008)

[Mom and Dad] were so annoying last night, [nagging] me to hurry up and finish that application. I finally decided to [Humour the Boomers] and told them i would complete it before bed. ❋ Groller Prizzly (2006)

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