I’ve never understood the term “humor me”. Is it meant sarcastically? Please explain.
Answer
Humor, as a verb, means literally to indulge or tolerate someone’s humor (noun), where the noun intends not the modern sense of joking or a transient mood but the now archaic sense of temperament or idiosyncracy or eccentricity.
Humor me thus means indulge me—in the sense of gimme some slack or gimme a break, but less aggressive than these. It is used most often as an appeal, at once gentle and ironic, to an interlocutor who interrupts one’s discourse; it means, approximately, Let’s treat what I’m saying (or doing) and you’re objecting to as mere personal whim—on that basis, allow me to finish, and then you can have your say.
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