Humour

Definition

humour ( US humor ) /'hju:mǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [U] ရယ္ရႊင္ဖြယ္။ ရယ္ စရာ။ ဟာသ။ a story full of gentle humour ❍ recognize the humour of a situation. ၂။ [U] ဟာသဉာဏ္။ ျပက္လံုး။ He has a good sense of humour. ❍ a show marked by the author's own peculiar brand of humour. ၃။ [U, sing] ( fml ) စိတ္ေနစိတ္ထား။ စိတ္။ [ဥ] ရာသီဥတု။ be in an excellent humour ❍ with great good humour. ( US humor ) v ေခ်ာ့သည္။ It's always best to humour him when he's in one of his bad moods. ❏ -humoured ( US -humored ) (forming compound adjs ) (စိတ္ေကာင္း၊ စိတ္ဆိုး စသည္) … ေနပံုရသည္။ good humoured ❍ ill-humoured. ❏ humourless ( US humorless ) adj (မ်က္ႏွာ) ေသေသာ၊ ထံုေတေတႏိုင္ေသာ။ a humourless person/style.

Examples

1. A novel full of humour
2. [not see the humour in something] : They laughed at things she didn’t see the humour in.
3. He made a hopeless attempt at humour.
4. His colleagues remember him for his humour and loyalty.
5. [sense of humour] : Sally is a friendly person with a great sense of humour.
6. Fred’s comments did nothing to improve Jo’s humour.
7. [in (a) good/bad humour] : He laughed again
8. obviously in a good humour.