‖ Galgenhumor, galgenhumor
(ˈgalgənhuːˌmoːr)
[G., f. galgen gallows + humor humour.]
= gallows-humour (gallows n. 8).
| 1912 O. Onions In Accordance with Evidence 273 This galgenhumor almost mastered me as the paper again crept up to take another peep at him. 1948 Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 727 Not a few of these terms show Galgenhumor, e.g., meat-wagon for an ambulance. 1959 Observer 26 Apr. 25/4 Berliners, with their Galgenhumor and Schnoddrigkeit. 1963 Auden Dyer's Hand 523 The Gravedigger's song in Hamlet is..an expression of the galgenhumor which suits his particular mystery. |