Black Humor

Definition: Black Humor

1. The juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect.

Commercial Usage: Black Humor

Domain	Title
Books	Black Humor 2003 Calendar: Satire, Comedy, and Wit (reference) Comedic Pathos: Black Humor in Mark Twain's Fiction (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Black Humor

Modern Translations: Black Humor

Language		Translations for "black humor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		ブラウン管 (black, Black Africa, black box, black chamber, black coffee, black comedy, black ghetto, black hole, black journalism, black magic, black market, black Monday, black money, Black Panther, black pepper, Black Power, black shaft, black tie, blackjack, blacklist, blackout, bland, blank, blanket, blanket area, blood bank, blood elite, bra, bra cup, bracket, Brad Pitt, branch, brand, brand image, brand loyalty, brandy, brass, brass-band, brasserie, brassie, brassiere, Bratislava, bravo, Brazil, brothers, brunch, brush, brush back pitch, brushy, Brussels, cathode-ray tube). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ブラックユーモア . (various references)

Pig Latin		ackblay umorhay

Turkish		kara mizah (black humour, gallows humor, gallows humour). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: Black Humor

Misspellings
	"Black Humor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: black humour. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Black Humor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-k-l-m-o-r-u"
	-3 letters: armlock, buckram, chabouk, clamour, humoral, lockram.
	-4 letters: broach, bromal, brumal, buckra, chabuk, choral, chroma, chukar, clamor, crambo, labour, labrum, lumbar, morula, ocular, rhumba, umbral.
	-5 letters: abhor, abmho, abohm, album, amour, amuck, baulk, black, block, bolar, boral, brach, brock, bucko, carbo, carob, carol, carom, caulk, chalk, chark, charm, churl, claro, cloak, clomb, clour, cobra.
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