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What does humouring mean?

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  1. present participle of humour
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Occasionally, he clucks: a teeth-kissing Ansari-ism that he uses, I think, when he's humouring a question he's already bored by.
I've met one other person in my life who has related to this, although actually with hindsight I think she might just have been humouring me.
May I also, as yesterday, extend my thanks to the services and the interpreters for humouring us.
Or dress up and join in the fun, which involves deciphering clues and humouring check point marshals on a bumpy race across the East Kimberley.
The women looked at the photograph, but you could see they were just humouring him.
And, while she was humouring him, it suddenly occurred to her, why not do it thoroughly?

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