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sense of humour en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. A person’s faculty for finding certain things funny.
   • "No drugs, sorry," I tried to joke. It was a mistake, of course. I didn't know then that one should never test a customs (or immigration) officer's sense of humour. She asked me to open my suitcases. 2026 February 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A brave new world... pt 2”, in RAIL, number 1054, page 68:
   • The man’s right leg had been completely crushed in the crash, and he was losing a lot of blood. “Mr Goodie,” began the doctor as soon as Dad had been rushed into the Accident and Emergency department at the hospital. “I have some very bad news. We have to amputate your leg.” “Which one?” replied Dad, not losing his sense of humour at this dark time. “The right one, of course. If we don’t operate straight away, there is a very real chance you will die.” 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Crushed in the Crash”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 16:
   • I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand. 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112:

Forms

Translations (27)

tr mizah anlayışı (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · gl senso de humor (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · hy հումորի զգացում (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · mi ngākau manawa reka (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · de Sinn für Humor (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · ja ユーモアのセンス (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · es sentido del humor (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · sv sinne för humor (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · vi khiếu hài hước (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · pt senso de humor (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · cs smysl pro humor (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · da humoristisk sans (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · am ቀልደኛነት (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · fr sens de l'humour (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · tr espri anlayışı (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · el αίσθηση του χιούμορ (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · th อารมณ์ขัน (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · he חוש הומור (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · ru чу́вство ю́мора (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · ka იუმორის გრძნობა (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · nl gevoel voor humor (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · cmn 幽默感 (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · it senso umoristico (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · pl poczucie humoru (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · fi huumorintaju (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · uk почуття гумору (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny) · hu humorérzék (person’s faculty for finding certain things funny)