Humouring

What does HUMOURING mean?

Humouring is a form of HUMOUR.

1. noun

   a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

   “whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time”

2. noun

   a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

3. noun

   (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state

   “the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile”

4. noun

   the liquid parts of the body

Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.