sense of humour

• sense of humor (American spelling)

sense of humour (plural senses of humour)

1. A person’s faculty for finding certain things funny.
   • 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112:

     I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand.

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     The man’s right leg had been completely crushed in the crash, and he was losing a lot of blood.
     “Mr Goodie,” began the doctor as soon as Dad had been rushed into the Accident and Emergency department at the hospital.
     “I have some very bad news. We have to amputate your leg.”
     “Which one?” replied Dad, not losing his sense of humour at this dark time.
     “The right one, of course. If we don’t operate straight away, there is a very real chance you will die.”