humoursome

British  

/ ˈhjuːməsəm /

adjective

1. capricious; fanciful

2. inclined to humour (someone)

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Example Sentences

But by your favour, sir, 'tis not so easy; her father has already promised her; and the young gentleman comes up with them: I partly know the man—but the old squire is humoursome; he's stout, and plain in speech, and in behaviour; he loves none of the fine town tricks of breeding, but stands up for the old Elizabeth way in all things.

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All these people were as bilious as they could be, humoursome, mistrustful, the victims of a moral and physical supersensitiveness.

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The humoursome Wagtails and that rare visitant the Waxwing, hopped along together, followed by the Swallows and the Martins, and a whole posse of Finches of various orders, particularly the Chaffinches who were joking with the Linnets.

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"Pray be not so morose or humoursome," he wrote, "as to refuse all things you have not known so long as Christ's College."

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The little man glanced up at my cousin with a humoursome gleam in his eyes.

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