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good-humor

good-humor noun: archaic American form of good humour.

Noun

good-humor (uncountable)

  1. Archaic American form of good humour.
    • The speech of Hist produced a retort, and the dispute, though conducted in good-humor, and without any of the coarse violence of tone and l gesture that often impairs the charms of the sex in what is called civilized life, grew warm and slightly clamorous.1850 [1841], J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, chapter XVI, in The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path. A Tale. (The Leather-Stocking Tales; volume I), New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam, […], page 307
    • What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that thing must have been...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 129

Questions about good-humor

What does good-humor mean?
Good-humor means archaic American form of good humour.
What part of speech is good-humor?
Good-humor is a noun.

Words near good-humor in the dictionary

  1. good-good
  2. good-hearted
  3. good-heartedly
  4. good-heartedness
  5. Good-Henry
  6. good-humor
  7. good-humored
  8. good-humoredly
  9. good-humoredness
  10. good-humour
  11. good-humoured

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