ALL meanings of humour
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H h - abbreviation Technical meaning of HUMOUR hacker humour 3
- noun Definition of humour in Technology A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom. 1
- noun humour (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture. 1
- abbreviation HUMOUR humor. 1
- noun humour (archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. 0
- noun humour (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour. 0
- noun humour (Uncountable Noun) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. 0
- noun humour (Uncountable Noun) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. 0
- verb humour (Transitive Verb) To pacify by indulging. 0
- uncountable noun humour You can refer to the amusing things that people say as their humour. 0
- uncountable noun humour Humour is a quality in something that makes you laugh, for example in a situation, in someone's words or actions, or in a book or film. 0
- variable noun humour If you are in a good humour, you feel cheerful and happy, and are pleasant to people. If you are in a bad humour, you feel bad-tempered and unhappy, and are unpleasant to people. 0
- uncountable noun humour If you do something with good humour, you do it cheerfully and pleasantly. 0
- verb humour If you humour someone who is behaving strangely, you try to please them or pretend to agree with them, so that they will not become upset. 0
- noun humour the quality of being funny 0
- noun humour the ability to appreciate or express that which is humorous 0
- noun humour situations, speech, or writings that are thought to be humorous 0
- noun humour a state of mind; temper; mood 0
- noun humour (in combination) 0
- noun humour temperament or disposition 0
- noun humour a caprice or whim 0
- noun humour any of various fluids in the body, esp the aqueous humour and vitreous humour 0
- noun humour any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition 0
- verb humour to attempt to gratify; indulge 0
- verb humour to adapt oneself to 0
- abbreviation HUMOUR humor 0