humoursome
Britishadjective
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capricious; fanciful
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inclined to humour (someone)
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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 Ian Maclaren
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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"Body o' me, but you're grown woundily humoursome of a sudden," muttered the other at the lower end of his voice.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
Men are so humoursome, the Agreement or Disagreement in the most minute Matters, either procures or destroys Concord.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
He treats us, in Lady Beauchamp, as perverse humoursome babies, loving power, yet not knowing how to use it.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson
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