dishumour
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Verb
dishumour (third-person singular simple present dishumours, present participle dishumouring, simple past and past participle dishumoured)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of humour or desire; to put out of humour.
- 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, signature P ij, recto:
- O, how I do feed vpon this now, and fat my ſelf? here were a couple vnexpectedly diſhumor'd: […]
Noun
dishumour (uncountable)
References
- “dishumor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.