dishumour

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verb

To deprive of humour or desire; to put out of humour.

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Meanings

verbdishumour (third-person singular simple present dishumours, present participle dishumouring, simple past and past participle dishumoured)

present singular third person dishumours · participle present dishumouring · participle past dishumoured · past dishumoured · alternative dishumor

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo deprive of humour or desire; to put out of humour.

    O, how I do feed vpon this now, and fat my ſelf? here were a couple vnexpectedly diſhumor'd: […]

    1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, signature P ij, recto
noundishumour (uncountable)

alternative dishumor

  1. obsoleteuncountableill humour; bad temper

Origin

From dis- + humour.

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Chicago

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