sense of humour

English

Alternative forms

• sense of humor (American spelling)

Noun

sense of humour (plural senses of humour)

1. A person’s faculty for finding certain things funny.
   • 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112:

     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.

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Crushed in the Crash”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 16:

     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.”

Translations

person’s faculty for finding certain things funny

• Armenian: հումորի զգացում (hy) (humori zgacʻum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幽默感 (zh) (yōumògǎn)

• Czech: smysl pro humor m
• Danish: humoristisk sans c
• Dutch: gevoel voor humor
• Finnish: huumorintaju (fi)
• French: sens de l’humour (fr) m
• Galician: senso de humor m
• Georgian: იუმორის გრძნობა (iumoris grʒnoba)
• German: Sinn für Humor m
• Greek: αίσθηση του χιούμορ f (aísthisi tou chioúmor)
• Hebrew: חוש הומור (he) (khush humor)
• Hungarian: humorérzék (hu)
• Italian: senso umoristico m
• Japanese: ユーモアのセンス (yūmoa no sensu)
• Maori: ngākau manawa reka
• Polish: poczucie humoru (pl) n
• Portuguese: senso de humor m
• Russian: чу́вство ю́мора (ru) n (čúvstvo júmora)
• Spanish: sentido del humor m
• Swedish: sinne för humor n
• Thai: อารมณ์ขัน (aa-rom-kǎn)
• Turkish: mizah anlayışı, espri anlayışı
• Ukrainian: почуття гумору (uk) n (počuttja humoru)
• Vietnamese: khiếu hài hước