Crossword clues for humorist
humorist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humorist \Hu"mor*ist\, n. [Cf. F. humoriste.]
(Med.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors. [archaic]
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One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life.
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One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll; especially, one who writes or tells jokes as a profession.
The reputation of wits and humorists.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from humor (n.) + -ist. Perhaps on model of Middle French humoriste.
Wiktionary
n. A person who writes or performs humorous material.
WordNet
n. someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way [syn: humourist]
Wikipedia
Humorist (1918–1921) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a leading two-year-old in 1920 and finished third in the 1921 2000 Guineas before winning the Derby at Epsom. Less than three weeks after the Derby, Humorist died in his stable from a lung haemorrhage caused by a tubercular condition.
Usage examples of "humorist".
Story Out of Nazareth Confessions of a Humorist The Sparrows in Madison Square Hearts and Hands The Cactus The Detective Detector The Dog and the Playlet A Little Talk About Mobs The Snow Man THE RED ROSES OF TONIA A trestle burned down on the International Railroad.
He was a humorist hardly robust enough for more than a brief local immortality.
There were other friends and classmates, one of them a natural humorist of the liveliest sort, who would have been quarantined in any Puritan port, his laugh was so potently contagious.
Smollett with that of Fielding, but the former has scarcely any claim to be regarded as a humorist, except such as is largely due to the use of gross indelicacy and coarse caricature.
Though not gifted with the strength and suppleness of a great humorist, he had an intermingled sweetness and brightness beyond even the alchemy of Addison.
In short he is not a humorist, but a great wit, almost as great as Voltaire.
He is perhaps the greatest Russian humorist since Gogol, and to the general reader this is his most important and attractive aspect.
Writing of the Probate and Divorce Court reminds me of a curious application for the postponement of a trial made by George Brown, who was as good a humorist as he was a lawyer.
The colonel, you see, was a humorist, as humour was then understood upon the northern shores of Africa, where he had been schooled.
Some humorist recorded a poem on the tape, and we started broadcasting.
Mark or were with him on some of his usual escapades have been honored with large audiences whenever they were in a reminiscent mood and condescended to tell of their intimacy with the ordinary boy who came to be a very extraordinary humorist and whose every boyish act is now seen to have been indicative of what was to come.
In his own day he was famous all over the world as a humorist and comic lecturer.
McKinney was our local humorist and never was one to encourage jokes from other people.
It is not so exalted a claim to make for them, but it may be added that they were often the wits and humorists of their localities.
Swift, one of the most highly gifted and successful humorists any country ever produced.