good-humor

good-humor (uncountable)

1. Archaic American form of good humour.
   • 1850 [1841], J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, chapter XVI, in The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path. A Tale. (The Leather-Stocking Tales; volume I), New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam, […], page 307:

     The speech of Hist produced a retort, and the dispute, though conducted in good-humor, and without any of the coarse violence of tone and l gesture that often impairs the charms of the sex in what is called civilized life, grew warm and slightly clamorous.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 129:

     What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that thing must have been his pipe.

   • 1852 May, Abel C[harles] Thomas, “Preface”, in Autobiography of Rev. Abel C. Thomas: Including Recollections of Persons, Incidents, and Places, Boston, Mass.: […] J. M. Usher, […], page 4:

     With a spirit naturally gay, and a disposition to join the circles of consistent good-humor, he could readily have filled these pages with general instruction and amusement.