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vagary

English

Etymology

From Latin vagus (wandering).

Pronunciation

  • (General American, formerly) IPA(key): /v?????i/
  • (General American, now commonly) IPA(key): /?ve????i/

Noun

vagary (plural vagaries)

  1. An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
    • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies, ch. 8:
      It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil.
  2. An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:whim
    • 1905, Jack London, War of the Classes, Preface:
      And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.

Derived terms

  • vagarity
  • vagarious

Related terms

  • vague
  • vagrant
  • vagabond

Translations

See also

  • vaguery

Anagrams

  • Varyag

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humour

English

Alternative forms

  • humor (American)

Etymology

From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, from Latin humor, correctly umor (moisture), from hum?, correctly um? (to be moist).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?hju?.m?(?)/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?hju?m?/, /?ju?m?/
  • Hyphenation: hu?mour
  • Rhymes: -u?m?(?)

Noun

humour (usually uncountable, plural humours) (British spelling)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. [from the early 18th c.]
    • 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation
      For thy sake I admit / That a Scot may have humour, I'd almost said wit.
    • A great deal of excellent humour was expended on the perplexities of mine host.
    Synonyms: amusingness, comedy, comicality, wit
  2. (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
      a prince of a pleasant humour
    • 1684, Lord Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
      Examine how your humour is inclined, / And which the ruling passion of your mind.
    • Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humours to be endured?
    Synonym: mood
  3. (archaic or historical) 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.
    • , Book I, New York 2001,page 147:
      A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.
    • 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), (tr. 1774) page 42:
      For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
    Synonym: bodily fluid
  4. (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
  5. (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.

Synonyms

  • (something funny): comedy, wit, witticism

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • ? Korean: ?? (yumeo)

Translations

Verb

humour (third-person singular simple present humours, present participle humouring, simple past and past participle humoured)

  1. (transitive) To pacify by indulging.

Translations

See also

  • humour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English humour. Doublet of humeur.

Pronunciation

  • (mute h) IPA(key): /y.mu?/
  • Rhymes: -u?

Noun

humour m (plural humours)

  1. humor; comic effect in a communication or performance.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “humour” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English humour.

Noun

humour m (invariable)

  1. sense of humour

Further reading

  • humour in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • humore, umour, humor, humur, humer

Etymology

From Old French humor, from Latin h?mor, ?mor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iu??mu?r/, /?iu?mur/

Noun

humour (plural humours)

  1. A "cardinal humour" (four liquids believed to affect health and mood)
  2. A bodily liquid or substance that causes disease or affliction.
  3. A bodily liquid or substance that is caused by disease.
  4. One of the two (usually reckoned as three or four) fluidous portions of the eye.
  5. Any fluid; something which flows or moves in a fluidous manner:
    1. The liquid contained within a plant; plant juices.
    2. (rare) A liquid of the human body (e.g. blood)
  6. A mist or gas; a substance dissipated in the air.
  7. (rare) One of the four classical elements (fire, earth, air, and water).

Descendants

  • English: humour, humor
  • Scots: humour

References

  • “h?m?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-09.

See also

  • (four humours) flewme,? coler,? malencolie,? sanguine [edit]

Old French

Noun

humour m or f

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of humor

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