humorist
See also: Humorist
English
Alternative forms
- humourist
Etymology
From humor + -ist.
Noun
humorist (plural humorists)
- (medicine, now rare, historical) Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric. [16th–19th c.]
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 88, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:
- She and the duke used to rally me upon my fondness for lord W—m, who was a sort of an humourist, and apt to be in a pet, in which case he would leave the company, and go to bed by seven o'clock in the evening.
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 175:
- I called on him and found him a contemporary of Beauclerk and Langton at Trinity College, Oxford, and a man of reading and animation, but a kind of humourist.
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- A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance. [from 17th c.]
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in The Cuckoo in the Nest:
- Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.
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- One who studies or portrays the humours of people.
Coordinate terms
- comedian / comedienne
- comic
- clown
- jester
Translations
writer of humor
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Romanian
Noun
humorist m (plural humoriști, feminine equivalent humoristă)
- Alternative spelling of umorist.