sense of humour

• sense of humor (American spelling)

sense of humour (plural senses of humour)

1. The quality of an individual to find 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.