humoursome
Britishadjective
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capricious; fanciful
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inclined to humour (someone)
Example Sentences
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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."
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
Noo, Faith! the auld jade was a humoursome taed, As an auld wife weel can be, An' she leugh sae sair at his fleechin' air It fairly gar't her dee!
From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by Rorie, David
And the nose is one mass of humoursome corrugations.
From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William
Soon after my return from America in 1851 I dined with my neighbour at Albury, Henry Drummond, the humoursome M.P., always not a little good-naturedly mischievous.
From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar
But while she said it, Pearl laughed, and began to dance up and down with the humoursome gesticulation of a little imp, whose next freak might be to fly up the chimney.
From The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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