humourous
English
Adjective
humourous (comparative more humourous, superlative most humourous)
- (chiefly UK, uncommon, proscribed) Alternative spelling of humorous
- 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page xiv:
- [W]hatever Perſon vvould aſpire to be completely vvitty, ſmart, humourous, and polite, muſt by hard Labour be able to retain in his Memory every ſingle Sentence contained in this VVork, […]
Usage notes
- The Oxford Dictionary states that "the spelling humourous is regarded as an error" in both British and American English.[1]
References
- humorous Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved: 2014-04-03.
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