humor
VERB:
1. to comply with the humor or mood of in order to soothe or make content or more agreeable:
to humor a child.
2. to adapt or accommodate oneself to.
3. to soothe or content (someone) by indulgence; to comply with the temperament or inclinations of:
The only way to get along with him is to humor him; I know you don't agree, but just humor me.
4. to adapt oneself to:
yielding to, and humoring the motion of the limbs and twigs. —William Bartram.
5. comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be:
she was always humoring him to prevent trouble.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English (h)umour < Anglo-French < Latin (h)ūmōr- (stem of (h)ūmor) moisture, fluid (medical Latin: body fluid), equivalent to (h)ūm(ēre) to be wet (see humid) + -ōr- -or^1. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: 14th century. Verb: 1597. History and Etymology: Noun and Verb: Middle English humour, from Anglo-French umor, umour, from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin humor, from Latin humor, umor moisture; akin to Old Norse vǫkr damp, Latin humēre to be moist, and perhaps to Greek hygros wet. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2, 3.
Updated: 9 September 2020 {6:30 PM}
1. to comply with the humor or mood of in order to soothe or make content or more agreeable:
to humor a child.
2. to adapt or accommodate oneself to.
3. to soothe or content (someone) by indulgence; to comply with the temperament or inclinations of:
The only way to get along with him is to humor him; I know you don't agree, but just humor me.
4. to adapt oneself to:
yielding to, and humoring the motion of the limbs and twigs. —William Bartram.
5. comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be:
she was always humoring him to prevent trouble.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English (h)umour < Anglo-French < Latin (h)ūmōr- (stem of (h)ūmor) moisture, fluid (medical Latin: body fluid), equivalent to (h)ūm(ēre) to be wet (see humid) + -ōr- -or^1. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: 14th century. Verb: 1597. History and Etymology: Noun and Verb: Middle English humour, from Anglo-French umor, umour, from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin humor, from Latin humor, umor moisture; akin to Old Norse vǫkr damp, Latin humēre to be moist, and perhaps to Greek hygros wet. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2, 3.
Updated: 9 September 2020 {6:30 PM}