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111humorous — humorous1 humorously, adv. humorousness, n. /hyooh meuhr euhs/ or, often, /yooh /, adj. 1. characterized by humor; funny; comical: a humorous anecdote. 2. having or showing the faculty of humor; droll; facetious: a humorous person. [1570 80;… …
112Hou Baolin — b. 1917, Beijing; d. 1993, Beijing Xiangsheng (comic dialogue) actor Hou Baolin began learning xiangsheng at sixteen and became an actor at twenty three. A master of humour for half a century, Hou brought new life to the art and was known to… …
113humorous — adjective /ˈhjuːmərəs/ a) Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny. The waiters were so humorous one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him. b) Showing humor; witty, jocular …
114List of phobias — This article is about the suffix phobia. For the class of psychological disorders, see Phobia. Contents 1 Psychological conditions 1.1 Animal phobias …
115List of words having different meanings in British and American English: A–L — Differences between American and British English American English …
116humorous — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. comical, comic, witty, entertaining; see funny 1 , witty . See Synonym Study at witty . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. funny, comical, laughable, ludicrous, hilarious, *side splitting, facetious, tickling, farcical,… …
117Wit — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Wit >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 wit wit humor wittiness Sgm: N 1 attic wit attic wit attic salt Sgm: N 1 atticism atticism Sgm: N 1 salt salt esprit point …
118jewel — [13] Originally, jewel meant ‘costly adornment made from precious stones or metals’ – a sense now largely restricted to the collective form jewellery [14]. The main modern sense ‘gem’ emerged towards the end of the 16th century. The word comes… …
119joke — [17] Latin jocus meant ‘jest, joke’ (a possible link with Old High German gehan ‘say’ and Sanskrit yācati ‘he implores’ suggests that its underlying meaning was ‘word play’). It passed into Old French as jeu, which lies behind English jeopardy… …
120juggle — (v.) late 14c., entertain by clowning or doing tricks, back formation from juggler and in part from O.Fr. jogler play tricks, sing songs, from L.L. ioculare (Cf. It. giocolare), from L. ioculari “to jest” (see JOCULAR (Cf. jocular)). Related …
