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gallows humour (British & Australian) also gallows humor (American & Australian) humour that makes unpleasant things, such as death, seem funny Usage notes: The gallows are a wooden frame used in the past for killing criminals by hanging them from a rope tied around their neck. Many of the patients I worked with knew they were dying. There was a lot of gallows humour. schoolboy humour (British & Australian) also schoolboy humor (American & Australian) stupid jokes that are rude but not very offensive Isn't he a bit old for this type of schoolboy humour? How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Before the war, Dawson had been a mathematics instructor at Royal Military College (Kingston) and, as the sobriquet "Dismal Dawson" would suggest, was humourless officer, and very, very strict. SIR: Oh capricious editors: How could I have guessed you were itching to denounce 'the humourless aridities of Le Havre'? Quite the contrary, both probably appreciated from the start the damage it would do their reputations with the king who could be guaranteed to take a rather humourless view of his servants brawling" (1995, 247). |
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