humorousadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈhjuːm(ə)rəs/, U.S.

/ˈhjumərəs/

Forms: late Middle English 1600s humerose, late Middle English–1700s humerous, 1600s humorose, 1500s– humorous, 1600s humurous, 1600s–1800s humourous.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French humoureux ; Latin humorosus ; humour n., -ous suffix

Etymology: Originally < (i) Middle French humereux, humoureux moist, humid (c1450), (of a disease or its symptoms) caused by humours (although this meaning is apparently first attested slightly later than in English: second half of the 15th cent.; French †humoreux subsequently in late 19th cent. in sense ‘(of a person) fanciful, capricious’), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin humorosus, umorosus moist, wet (4th cent.), of or relating to bodily humours (1363 in Chauliac) < classical Latin hūmor , ūmor humour n. + -ōsus -ous suffix. In later use also partly (iii) < humour n. + -ous suffix. Compare Old Occitan humoros most, humid, Spanish humoroso (13th cent.), Portuguese humoroso (14th cent.), Italian umoroso (a1292 in sense ‘moist, humid’, a1595 in sense ‘(of a person) fanciful, capricious’). Compare humoral adj.On the spelling and pronunciation history see discussion at humour n.

A. adj.

1. In ancient and medieval physiology and medicine: = humoral adj. 1. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [adjective] > humours

humoral?a1425

humorous?a1425

humoured1566

humourable1661

humoric1831

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts > of humours

humoral?a1425

humorous?a1425

cacochymic?1541

burnt1578

cacochymical1606

cacochyme1614

ill-tempereda1616

ebullient1620

sulphureous1625

cacochymious1676

dyscratic1684

dyscrasial1874

dyscrasic1874

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 113 (MED) About cauteriez, it is to vnderstond þat hem oweþ not to be done bot after al oþer curez, & most in þe putrefied & humerose lepre [?c1425 Paris in the roten lepre; L. in putrefacta & humorosa].

1544 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) v. f. xlii Sometymes hycket procedeth of repletion of matter humorous [Fr. matiere humorale], or of drinke and meate which engendre grosse ventositie, and not very easy to consume.

1578 W. Burghley Let. in Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors (1856) II. xlv. 268 Only the withdrawing of some one tooth that is touched with some humorous cause.

1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone Idea Pract. Physick vii. 29/1 Another is called Syncopalis, by reason of the swoning fits; which is..Humorous, proceeding from plenty of Flegmatick and crude humors.

1697 R. Pierce Bath Mem. ii. ii. 268 In all the three Degrees of Difficulty in Breathing..some Humerous, some Nervous, some mix'd.

1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady i. vi. 60 Other chronical and humorous Distempers.

1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico II. 319 Pecari, a quadruped which has upon its back a humorous gland which stinks.

1831 J. Morison in Morisoniana 382 Small Pox Virus, inherent..in proportion to the state of your own humourous affections.

1872 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 465 Thus, two movable covers lie over the eye, namely, the eyelids, whose inner surface is a compound humorous matter, a brackish, mucilaginous, fatty solution.

1983 J. W. Shirley Thomas Harriot xi. 442 Though he [sc. Harriot] had been branded by Mayerne as ‘exceedingly melancholy’, this imbalance of his humorous fluids..did not necessarily reflect itself in his personality.

†2. Moist, humid, damp; cf. humour n. 2. Obsolete.In quot. 1597 punning on sense A. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > [adjective]

moista1382

moistfula1398

undriedc1440

wak1513

mocha1522

humorous1526

humidc1550

dabby1581

fat1598

unparched1599

moistish1610

dampisha1642

weakya1642

rafty1655

dampya1691

damp1706

mochy1794

danky1820

1526 Grete Herball cccxlix. sig. Tv/1 Politryke, some call adyanthos, & some calle it erththought. It groweth agaynst walles, and in humorous places.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 31 He hath hid himselfe amongst those trees, To be consorted with the humerous night.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxi. 186 All founts, wells, all deeps humorous.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. 214 Euery lofty top, which late the humorous Night Bespangled had with pearle.

a1658 B. Rudyerd Prince d'amour (1660) 38 The Snow..dissolveth and discoagulateth it self into humorous liquidity.

a. Of a person, action, etc.: subject to or influenced by mood or humour; capricious, whimsical; odd. Also (figurative) of a thing. Now archaic and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical

startfulmood?a1300

wildc1350

volage?a1366

gerfulc1374

geryc1386

wild-headeda1400

skittishc1412

gerish1430

shittle1440

shittle-witted1448

runningc1449

volageous1487

glaikit1488

fantasious1490

giggish1523

tickle or light of the sear?1530

fantastical1531

wayward1531

wantona1538

peevish1539

light-headed1549

humoral1573

unstaid1579

shittle-headed1580

toy-headed1581

fangled1587

humorous1589

choiceful1591

toyish1598

tricksy1598

skip-brain1603

capricious1605

humoursome1607

planetary1607

vertiginous1609

whimsieda1625

ingiddied1628

whimsy1637

toysome1638

cocklec1640

mercurial1647

garish1650

maggoty1650

kicksey-winseya1652

freakish1653

humourish1653

planetic1653

whimsical1653

shittle-braineda1655

freaking1663

maggoty-headed1667

maggot-pated1681

hoity-toity1690

maggotish1693

maggot-headeda1695

whimsy-headed1699

fantasque1701

crotchetly1702

quixotic1718

volatile1719

holloweda1734

conundrumical1743

flighty1768

fly-away1775

dizzy1780

whimmy1785

shy1787

whimming1787

quirky1789

notional1791

tricksome1815

vagarish1819

freakful1820

faddy1824

moodish1827

mawky1837

erratic1841

rockety1843

quirkish1848

maggoty-pated1850

crotchetya1854

freaksome1854

faddish1855

vagrom1882

fantasied1883

vagarisome1883

on-and-offish1888

tricksical1889

freaky1891

hobby-horsical1893

quirksome1896

temperamental1907

up and down1960

untogether1969

fanciful-

fantastic-

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. F2 Tamberlaine..chose stigmaticall trulls to please his humorous fancie.

1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. C You know that women oft are humerous.

1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks ii. 29 The humorous Gales.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 71 The fluctuary motions of the humerous multitude.

1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 151 Built upon the sands of humerous novelty, not on the rock of holy antiquity.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 54. ⁋1 Pall'd Appetite is humorous, and must be gratify'd with Sauces rather than Food.

1757 Mag. of Mag. Apr. 308/2 His tongue, iced over with the hand of death, dictated the most humorous of wills.

1823 M. W. Shelley Valperga III. iii. 42 I am self-willed, sullen, and humourous.

1921 C. Morley Plum Pudding 7 I was too green and soft and humorous (in the Shakespearean sense) to permit any rational continuous plan of study.

1969 Times 23 June 11/3 A remarkable man, humorous in the original sense of the word, lively, vigorous.

†b. Moody, peevish, ill-humoured. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective]

moodyc1300

distemprec1374

melancholiana1393

solein1399

darkc1440

gloomingc1440

girning1447

melancholyc1450

tetrical1528

tetric1533

distemperate1548

morose1565

sullen1570

stunt1581

humorous1590

gloomya1593

muddy1592

clum1599

dortya1605

humoursome1607

distempereda1616

musty1620

grum1640

agelastic1666

fusty1668

purdy1668

ill-humoured1693

gurly1721

mumpish1721

sunking1724

tetricous1727

sumphish1728

stunkard1737

sulky1744

muggard1746

farouche1765

sombrea1767

glumpy1780

glumpish1800

tiffy1810

splenitive1815

stuffy1825

liverish1828

troglodytish1866

glummy1884

humpy1889

scowly1951

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. B3 In this humorous melancholie hee arose vp and raunged about the Citie, despayring of his estate as a man pennylesse.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 170 I that haue been loues whip? A verie Bedell to a humerous sigh.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 18 In which by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadnesse.

1640 F. Quarles Enchyridion iii. 10 Be not Angry with him..too often, lest he count thee humorous.

1670 R. Baxter Cure Church-div. 250 Those that are of uncharitable, humerous, peevish, contentious and fiery spirits.

1693 W. Penn Some Fruits of Solitude (ed. 2) §18. 9 He is humorous to his Wife, he beats his Children.

1722 J. Smith Magistrate & Christian 51 Not humorous or morose, fretful or peevish; but as free from such infirmities of mind, as he was from those of the body.

1842 M. R. Mitford Let 24 Mar. in A. G. K. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. ix. 243 Mr. Roebuck..is as cantankerous and humorous (in the old Shaksperian sense) as Cassius himself.

4. Full of, characterized by, or showing (a sense of) humour; amusing, comic, funny.In early use sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense A. 3a.Now the usual sense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > humorous or jesting

bourdfula1425

pleasant1530

facete1600

joculary1605

merrya1616

jocundary1618

lepidc1619

droll1623

humorousa1652

drollerical1656

humoursome1656

drollish1674

ludicrous1687

humorific1819

jestful1831

humoristica1834

a1652 R. Brome Court Begger ii. i. sig. O6^v, in Five New Playes (1653) This humorous wity Lady is a wit-sponge, that suckes up wit from some, and holds as her own.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 312 Others say that this Passage alludes to the Story of the Satire Marsyas..which I think is more humorous.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xiv Whatever Person would aspire to be completely witty, smart, humourous, and polite.

1781 S. Johnson Shenstone in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets X. 12 His poems consist of elegies, odes, and ballads, humorous sallies, and moral pieces.

1814 R. Bland Proverbs I. Pref. 8 In his humorous and satyrical declamation.

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. Prol. ii. 22 The Western American is..always humorous.

1933 P. G. Wodehouse Heavy Weather xii. 228 So humorous did her aspect seem to him that he lay back in his chair, laughing immoderately.

1956 Eng. Hist. Rev. 71 113 Footnotes, often ironic and dryly humorous.

1999 Denver Post (Nexis) 24 May f2 The humorous anecdotes gave everyone a good chuckle.

2009 N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Aug. 12/1 Humorous cat photos in which superimposed captions sport playfully poor grammar and spelling.

B. n. With the.

1. With plural agreement. Humorous people as a class (originally in sense A. 3a of the adjective, later in sense A. 4). Now rare.

ΚΠ

1606 B. Rich Faultes 4 As for the humorous they haue beene alredie brought to the stage, where they haue plaide their partes, Euerie man in his humour.

1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. iii. 417 I believe that New Philosophy need not..fear the pale, or the melancholy, as much as the humorous, and the merry.

1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 221 Few men care to live alone, and those, that do it, are either Savage People, or they are discontented, and the humorous.

1710 R. Steele et al. Tatler No. 252, in Lucubrations Isaac Bickerstaff (1711) II. 1/1 An inexhaustible Source of Wit to entertain the Curious, the Grace, the Humorous, and the Frolick.

1851 W. W. Fosdick Malmiztic the Toltec xix. 175 The happy jests of the humorous were hushed.

1905 Catholic Univ. Bull. Oct. 410 The humorous were delighted by his seriousness, his conviction of the value of his work, and its absurdity.

2. With singular agreement. That which is amusing or comical; the realm or sphere of humorous things.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical

comedy1535

toy1542

jest1602

joke1670

comic1674

high comedy1707

humorous1753

comicality1796

funny1852

funniosity1871

hot sketch1917

pisser1918

riot1919

panic1921

cocasserie1934

yell1938

mess1952

crack-up1961

1753 E. Haywoon HIst. Jemmy & Jenny Jessamy III. xxxvi. 282 The manner in which he express'd himself had so much of the humorous in it, mix'd with the pathetic, as made both the ladies laugh heartily.

1786 tr. Abbé Blanchet et al. Tales from French I. Pref. p. i The mixture of the humorous, the satiric, the serious, and the tragic, will prevent lassitude.

1821 T. De Quincey J. P. F. Richter in London Mag. Dec. 608/1 The pathetic and the humorous..melt indiscernibly into each other.

1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxiii. 230 A taste for the humorous is..independent of national difference.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 23 Sept. 6/2 There must be some universally valid conception of the humorous for even a denial of it to have any meaning.

1986 ARTnews Nov. 38/2 Surls falls somewhere between the humorous and the straight.

2003 A. B. Thompson Everyday Saints & Art of Narr. 192 Its combination of the popular, the humorous, and the didactic is consonant with the friars' desire to teach a large audience.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	humorous
释义	humorousadj.n. Brit. /ˈhjuːm(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˈhjumərəs/ Forms: late Middle English 1600s humerose, late Middle English–1700s humerous, 1600s humorose, 1500s– humorous, 1600s humurous, 1600s–1800s humourous. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French humoureux ; Latin humorosus ; humour n., -ous suffix Etymology: Originally < (i) Middle French humereux, humoureux moist, humid (c1450), (of a disease or its symptoms) caused by humours (although this meaning is apparently first attested slightly later than in English: second half of the 15th cent.; French †humoreux subsequently in late 19th cent. in sense ‘(of a person) fanciful, capricious’), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin humorosus, umorosus moist, wet (4th cent.), of or relating to bodily humours (1363 in Chauliac) < classical Latin hūmor , ūmor humour n. + -ōsus -ous suffix. In later use also partly (iii) < humour n. + -ous suffix. Compare Old Occitan humoros most, humid, Spanish humoroso (13th cent.), Portuguese humoroso (14th cent.), Italian umoroso (a1292 in sense ‘moist, humid’, a1595 in sense ‘(of a person) fanciful, capricious’). Compare humoral adj.On the spelling and pronunciation history see discussion at humour n. A. adj. 1. In ancient and medieval physiology and medicine: = humoral adj. 1. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [adjective] > humours humoral?a1425 humorous?a1425 humoured1566 humourable1661 humoric1831 the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts > of humours humoral?a1425 humorous?a1425 cacochymic?1541 burnt1578 cacochymical1606 cacochyme1614 ill-tempereda1616 ebullient1620 sulphureous1625 cacochymious1676 dyscratic1684 dyscrasial1874 dyscrasic1874 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 113 (MED) About cauteriez, it is to vnderstond þat hem oweþ not to be done bot after al oþer curez, & most in þe putrefied & humerose lepre [?c1425 Paris in the roten lepre; L. in putrefacta & humorosa]. 1544 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) v. f. xlii Sometymes hycket procedeth of repletion of matter humorous [Fr. matiere humorale], or of drinke and meate which engendre grosse ventositie, and not very easy to consume. 1578 W. Burghley Let. in Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors (1856) II. xlv. 268 Only the withdrawing of some one tooth that is touched with some humorous cause. 1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone Idea Pract. Physick vii. 29/1 Another is called Syncopalis, by reason of the swoning fits; which is..Humorous, proceeding from plenty of Flegmatick and crude humors. 1697 R. Pierce Bath Mem. ii. ii. 268 In all the three Degrees of Difficulty in Breathing..some Humerous, some Nervous, some mix'd. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady i. vi. 60 Other chronical and humorous Distempers. 1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico II. 319 Pecari, a quadruped which has upon its back a humorous gland which stinks. 1831 J. Morison in Morisoniana 382 Small Pox Virus, inherent..in proportion to the state of your own humourous affections. 1872 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 465 Thus, two movable covers lie over the eye, namely, the eyelids, whose inner surface is a compound humorous matter, a brackish, mucilaginous, fatty solution. 1983 J. W. Shirley Thomas Harriot xi. 442 Though he [sc. Harriot] had been branded by Mayerne as ‘exceedingly melancholy’, this imbalance of his humorous fluids..did not necessarily reflect itself in his personality. †2. Moist, humid, damp; cf. humour n. 2. Obsolete.In quot. 1597 punning on sense A. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > [adjective] moista1382 moistfula1398 undriedc1440 wak1513 mocha1522 humorous1526 humidc1550 dabby1581 fat1598 unparched1599 moistish1610 dampisha1642 weakya1642 rafty1655 dampya1691 damp1706 mochy1794 danky1820 1526 Grete Herball cccxlix. sig. Tv/1 Politryke, some call adyanthos, & some calle it erththought. It groweth agaynst walles, and in humorous places. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 31 He hath hid himselfe amongst those trees, To be consorted with the humerous night. View more context for this quotation ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxi. 186 All founts, wells, all deeps humorous. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. 214 Euery lofty top, which late the humorous Night Bespangled had with pearle. a1658 B. Rudyerd Prince d'amour (1660) 38 The Snow..dissolveth and discoagulateth it self into humorous liquidity. 3. a. Of a person, action, etc.: subject to or influenced by mood or humour; capricious, whimsical; odd. Also (figurative) of a thing. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical startfulmood?a1300 wildc1350 volage?a1366 gerfulc1374 geryc1386 wild-headeda1400 skittishc1412 gerish1430 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 runningc1449 volageous1487 glaikit1488 fantasious1490 giggish1523 tickle or light of the sear?1530 fantastical1531 wayward1531 wantona1538 peevish1539 light-headed1549 humoral1573 unstaid1579 shittle-headed1580 toy-headed1581 fangled1587 humorous1589 choiceful1591 toyish1598 tricksy1598 skip-brain1603 capricious1605 humoursome1607 planetary1607 vertiginous1609 whimsieda1625 ingiddied1628 whimsy1637 toysome1638 cocklec1640 mercurial1647 garish1650 maggoty1650 kicksey-winseya1652 freakish1653 humourish1653 planetic1653 whimsical1653 shittle-braineda1655 freaking1663 maggoty-headed1667 maggot-pated1681 hoity-toity1690 maggotish1693 maggot-headeda1695 whimsy-headed1699 fantasque1701 crotchetly1702 quixotic1718 volatile1719 holloweda1734 conundrumical1743 flighty1768 fly-away1775 dizzy1780 whimmy1785 shy1787 whimming1787 quirky1789 notional1791 tricksome1815 vagarish1819 freakful1820 faddy1824 moodish1827 mawky1837 erratic1841 rockety1843 quirkish1848 maggoty-pated1850 crotchetya1854 freaksome1854 faddish1855 vagrom1882 fantasied1883 vagarisome1883 on-and-offish1888 tricksical1889 freaky1891 hobby-horsical1893 quirksome1896 temperamental1907 up and down1960 untogether1969 fanciful- fantastic- 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. F2 Tamberlaine..chose stigmaticall trulls to please his humorous fancie. 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. C You know that women oft are humerous. 1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks ii. 29 The humorous Gales. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 71 The fluctuary motions of the humerous multitude. 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 151 Built upon the sands of humerous novelty, not on the rock of holy antiquity. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 54. ⁋1 Pall'd Appetite is humorous, and must be gratify'd with Sauces rather than Food. 1757 Mag. of Mag. Apr. 308/2 His tongue, iced over with the hand of death, dictated the most humorous of wills. 1823 M. W. Shelley Valperga III. iii. 42 I am self-willed, sullen, and humourous. 1921 C. Morley Plum Pudding 7 I was too green and soft and humorous (in the Shakespearean sense) to permit any rational continuous plan of study. 1969 Times 23 June 11/3 A remarkable man, humorous in the original sense of the word, lively, vigorous. †b. Moody, peevish, ill-humoured. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective] moodyc1300 distemprec1374 melancholiana1393 solein1399 darkc1440 gloomingc1440 girning1447 melancholyc1450 tetrical1528 tetric1533 distemperate1548 morose1565 sullen1570 stunt1581 humorous1590 gloomya1593 muddy1592 clum1599 dortya1605 humoursome1607 distempereda1616 musty1620 grum1640 agelastic1666 fusty1668 purdy1668 ill-humoured1693 gurly1721 mumpish1721 sunking1724 tetricous1727 sumphish1728 stunkard1737 sulky1744 muggard1746 farouche1765 sombrea1767 glumpy1780 glumpish1800 tiffy1810 splenitive1815 stuffy1825 liverish1828 troglodytish1866 glummy1884 humpy1889 scowly1951 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. B3 In this humorous melancholie hee arose vp and raunged about the Citie, despayring of his estate as a man pennylesse. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 170 I that haue been loues whip? A verie Bedell to a humerous sigh. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 18 In which by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadnesse. View more context for this quotation 1640 F. Quarles Enchyridion iii. 10 Be not Angry with him..too often, lest he count thee humorous. 1670 R. Baxter Cure Church-div. 250 Those that are of uncharitable, humerous, peevish, contentious and fiery spirits. 1693 W. Penn Some Fruits of Solitude (ed. 2) §18. 9 He is humorous to his Wife, he beats his Children. 1722 J. Smith Magistrate & Christian 51 Not humorous or morose, fretful or peevish; but as free from such infirmities of mind, as he was from those of the body. 1842 M. R. Mitford Let 24 Mar. in A. G. K. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. ix. 243 Mr. Roebuck..is as cantankerous and humorous (in the old Shaksperian sense) as Cassius himself. 4. Full of, characterized by, or showing (a sense of) humour; amusing, comic, funny.In early use sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense A. 3a.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > humorous or jesting bourdfula1425 pleasant1530 facete1600 joculary1605 merrya1616 jocundary1618 lepidc1619 droll1623 humorousa1652 drollerical1656 humoursome1656 drollish1674 ludicrous1687 humorific1819 jestful1831 humoristica1834 a1652 R. Brome Court Begger ii. i. sig. O6^v, in Five New Playes (1653) This humorous wity Lady is a wit-sponge, that suckes up wit from some, and holds as her own. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 312 Others say that this Passage alludes to the Story of the Satire Marsyas..which I think is more humorous. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xiv Whatever Person would aspire to be completely witty, smart, humourous, and polite. 1781 S. Johnson Shenstone in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets X. 12 His poems consist of elegies, odes, and ballads, humorous sallies, and moral pieces. 1814 R. Bland Proverbs I. Pref. 8 In his humorous and satyrical declamation. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. Prol. ii. 22 The Western American is..always humorous. 1933 P. G. Wodehouse Heavy Weather xii. 228 So humorous did her aspect seem to him that he lay back in his chair, laughing immoderately. 1956 Eng. Hist. Rev. 71 113 Footnotes, often ironic and dryly humorous. 1999 Denver Post (Nexis) 24 May f2 The humorous anecdotes gave everyone a good chuckle. 2009 N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Aug. 12/1 Humorous cat photos in which superimposed captions sport playfully poor grammar and spelling. B. n. With the. 1. With plural agreement. Humorous people as a class (originally in sense A. 3a of the adjective, later in sense A. 4). Now rare. ΚΠ 1606 B. Rich Faultes 4 As for the humorous they haue beene alredie brought to the stage, where they haue plaide their partes, Euerie man in his humour. 1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. iii. 417 I believe that New Philosophy need not..fear the pale, or the melancholy, as much as the humorous, and the merry. 1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 221 Few men care to live alone, and those, that do it, are either Savage People, or they are discontented, and the humorous. 1710 R. Steele et al. Tatler No. 252, in Lucubrations Isaac Bickerstaff (1711) II. 1/1 An inexhaustible Source of Wit to entertain the Curious, the Grace, the Humorous, and the Frolick. 1851 W. W. Fosdick Malmiztic the Toltec xix. 175 The happy jests of the humorous were hushed. 1905 Catholic Univ. Bull. Oct. 410 The humorous were delighted by his seriousness, his conviction of the value of his work, and its absurdity. 2. With singular agreement. That which is amusing or comical; the realm or sphere of humorous things. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical comedy1535 toy1542 jest1602 joke1670 comic1674 high comedy1707 humorous1753 comicality1796 funny1852 funniosity1871 hot sketch1917 pisser1918 riot1919 panic1921 cocasserie1934 yell1938 mess1952 crack-up1961 1753 E. Haywoon HIst. Jemmy & Jenny Jessamy III. xxxvi. 282 The manner in which he express'd himself had so much of the humorous in it, mix'd with the pathetic, as made both the ladies laugh heartily. 1786 tr. Abbé Blanchet et al. Tales from French I. Pref. p. i The mixture of the humorous, the satiric, the serious, and the tragic, will prevent lassitude. 1821 T. De Quincey J. P. F. Richter in London Mag. Dec. 608/1 The pathetic and the humorous..melt indiscernibly into each other. 1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxiii. 230 A taste for the humorous is..independent of national difference. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 23 Sept. 6/2 There must be some universally valid conception of the humorous for even a denial of it to have any meaning. 1986 ARTnews Nov. 38/2 Surls falls somewhere between the humorous and the straight. 2003 A. B. Thompson Everyday Saints & Art of Narr. 192 Its combination of the popular, the humorous, and the didactic is consonant with the friars' desire to teach a large audience. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1425
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