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Humorsome   Listen
adjective
Humorsome  adj.  
1.
Moody; whimsical; capricious. "The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms."
2.
Jocose; witty; humorous.





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"Humorsome" Quotes from Famous Books



... a number a years ago and ain't much of a story any way. But you're welcome to it, as some of it is rather humorsome, the laugh may do you good ef the story don't. We was livin' down to the east'ard at the time. It was a real pretty place; the house stood under a couple of maples and a gret brook come foamin' down the rayvine and away ...
— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott
... work by the day, Will allow you to do his work your way; And the cook who trieth your appetite Will steal no more than she thinks is right; When the boy you hire will call you "Sir," Instead of "Say" and "Guverner"; When the funny man is humorsome— How can ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... word could be trusted, and who, when he promised to take a certain course, would be sure to follow it. That very pride which made him habitually ridiculous raised him on great occasions above any suspicion of mercenary or personal views in politics. One of his contemporaries describes him as "so humorsome, proud, and capricious, that he was rather a ministry spoiler than a ministry maker." In the present condition of things, however, he could be made use of for the purpose of making one ministry after spoiling another. When he carried his great personal influence over to the side of the Hanoverian ...
— A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) • Justin McCarthy


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