humoring

hu·mor  (hymr)

n.

1. The quality that makes something laughable or amusing; funniness: could not see the humor of the situation.

2. That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement: a writer skilled at crafting humor.

3. The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd. See Synonyms at wit¹.

4. One of the four fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile, whose relative proportions were thought in ancient and medieval physiology to determine a person's disposition and general health.

5. Physiology

a. A body fluid, such as blood, lymph, or bile.

b. Aqueous humor.

c. Vitreous humor.

6. A person's characteristic disposition or temperament: a boy of sullen humor.

7. An often temporary state of mind; a mood: I'm in no humor to argue.

8.

a. A sudden, unanticipated whim. See Synonyms at mood¹.

b. Capricious or peculiar behavior.

tr.v. hu·mored, hu·mor·ing, hu·mors

1. To comply with the wishes or ideas of; indulge.

2. To adapt or accommodate oneself to. See Synonyms at pamper.

Idiom:

out of humor

In a bad mood; irritable.

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[Middle English, fluid, from Old French umor, from Latin mor, hmor.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

humoring - the act of indulging or gratifying a desire indulging, pampering, indulgence intemperateness, self-indulgence, intemperance - excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; "the intemperance of their language" gratification - the act or an instance of satisfying overindulgence, excess - excessive indulgence; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence" binge, orgy, splurge - any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending"