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humerus (HYOO muhr uhs) (noun)
A bone extending from the elbow to the shoulder in humanoids or of a forelimb in other animals: A fractured humerus can be a very painful injury.
humorous (HYOO muhr uhs) (adjective)
Funny, comical, amusing: Sometimes a humorous saying can contain a great deal of wisdom.
It is not humorous when you hit the funny bone in your elbow; and it is even less humorous if you hit your humerus.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group H; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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humorous (adjective)
1. Intended to be amusing and to make people laugh; being witty.
2. Full of, or characterized by being funny, comical; or by being facetious: "Originally the word humorous referred to a person's humors, or moods."
2. Full of, or characterized by being funny, comical; or by being facetious: "Originally the word humorous referred to a person's humors, or moods."
"A medieval book on medicine might include descriptions of humorous illnesses; however, these were not joke sicknesses. Now when people born after 1700 say something is humorous, it means they think it's funny and that it no longer indicates being sick as it was in its original usage."
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(Latin: joke, joking, jesting, humorous; cheerful and full of good humor)
(enjoying words with special points of view, sometimes humorous, and which are not found in a "regular" dictionary)
(picturesque, poetic, and sometimes, humorous writing)
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(a suffix freely used to designate someone who is associated with, concerned with, or characterized by a thing or an expression; sometimes, with a jocular [humorous] or derisive [contempt or ridicule] intent; borrowed from Russian, a common personal suffix)
(a reverse acronym or a regular word that also doubles as an acronym using the same procedures as with acronyms, except that the letters of a word are presented to form a phrase which defines the word or for humorous reasons)