humoursome
Britishadjective
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capricious; fanciful
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inclined to humour (someone)
Example Sentences
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There never was such a genial and humoursome face, so full of fun and humanity, as that which looked down on the speechless Speug.
From Young Barbarians by Maclaren, Ian
The little man glanced up at my cousin with a humoursome gleam in his eyes.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
And the nose is one mass of humoursome corrugations.
From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William
Peter was, on the other hand, a most humoursome varlet and excellent company on a wet day.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Mr. McLean, as stout and humoursome as of yore, had solemnly promised his wife to be jocular but not too jocular.
From Tommy and Grizel by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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