单词 | humour-blind |
释义 | > as lemmashumour-blind humour-blind adj. †(a) (of a horse) affected by humour-blindness (humour-blindness n. (a)) (obsolete rare); (b) lacking a sense of humour, without humour. ΚΠ 1798 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses II. ii. 42 I put it to the indolent owners of humour-blind, greasy-healed, and broken-winded horses, to answer that question. 1882 Punch 4 Feb. 50/1 How one pities these poor Prussians, high or low, all humour-blind. 1922 W. Murison in Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (new ed.) Introd. p. xxiii George Saintsbury finds humour, and declares that such as do not are themselves humour-blind. 2011 Weihe Xu in J. Chey & J. M. Davis Humour in Chinese Life & Lett. 141 All three [views] are equally humour blind. < as lemmas |
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