Bent vs Humour - What's the difference?
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(bend)
(Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented
(derogatory, colloquial, chiefly, UK) Homosexual.
Determined or insistent.
Of a person, leading a life of crime.
(slang, football) inaccurate at shooting
(colloquial, chiefly, US) Suffering from the bends
(slang) High]] from using both [[Cannabis, marijuana and alcohol.
An inclination or talent.
A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
* John Locke
(carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
* Norris
Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
* Drayton
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales , Folio Society 2005, p. 121:
* 1913 ,
A grassy area, grassland.
* The Ballad of Chevy Chase
(label) Moist vapour, moisture.
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.
*, Book I, New York 2001, p. 147:
* 1763 , (Antoine-Simon Le Page Du Pratz),
(label) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
(label) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (1633?-1684)
* (Robert South) (1634–1716)
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, title=, chapter=1
, passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”}}
(label) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)
* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
*
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour .}}
To pacify by indulging.
Bent is a related term of humour.
As a proper noun bent
is .As a noun humour is
(label) moist vapour, moisture.As a verb humour is
to pacify by indulging.bent
English
Etymology 1
From bend.Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
- They were bent on mischief.
- That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
- Man, I am so bent right now!
Synonyms
* (folded) crooked * (homosexual) queerDerived terms
* bent as a nine-bob noteNoun
(en noun)- He had a natural bent for painting.
- His mind was of a technical bent .
- the bent of a bow
- (Wilkins)
- (Dryden)
- bents and turns of the matter
- the full bent and stress of the soul
Synonyms
* (an inclination or talent) disposition, predilection, proclivity, propensityEtymology 2
Origin uncertain. Apparently representing (etyl) (term) (attested only in place-names and personal names), cognate with Old High German binuz (modern German ).Noun
(en noun)- His spear a bent , both stiff and strong.
- Gunga Dass gave me a double handful of dried bents which I thrust down the mouth of the lair to the right of his, and followed myself, feet foremost [...].
- Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent .
- Bowmen bickered upon the bent .
humour
English
(wikipedia humour)Alternative forms
* humor (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.
History of Louisisana(PG), (tr. 1774) p. 42:
- For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour , when pressed, that portended danger.
- a prince of a pleasant humour
- I like not the humour of lying.
- Examine how your humour is inclined, / And which the ruling passion of your mind.
- Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humours to be endured?
- For thy sake I admit / That a Scot may have humour , I'd almost said wit.
- A great deal of excellent humour was expended on the perplexities of mine host.
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.
Synonyms
* bodily fluid * (mood) mood * (something funny) comedy, wit, witticism * (quality of being amusing) amusingness, comedy, comicality, witDerived terms
* aqueous humour * black humour * crystalline humour * gallows humour * humoral * humorous * humorist * humorism * out of humour * sense of humour * toilet humour * vitreous humourVerb
- I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.