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humouring

humouring is the present participle and gerund of humour.

Meaning of humour

Verb

humour (third-person singular simple present humours, present participle humouring, simple past and past participle humoured)

  1. (UK, transitive) To pacify by indulging.
    • I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

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Questions about humouring

What is humouring the present participle and gerund of?
Humouring is the present participle and gerund of humour.

Words near humouring in the dictionary

  1. humour'd
  2. humoural
  3. humoured
  4. humouredly
  5. humourful
  6. humouring
  7. humourise
  8. humourised
  9. humourises
  10. humourising
  11. humourism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humouring (page history and authors); humour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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