Humorist

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Humorist \Hu"mor*ist\, n. [Cf. F. humoriste.]
     1. (Med.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the
        humors. [archaic]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character,


        which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in
              all parts of his life.                --Addison.
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     3. 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.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
              The reputation of wits and humorists. --Addison.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  humorist
       n : someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way [syn: {humourist}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "humorist":
     advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress,
     banana, banterer, belletrist, bibliographer, buffoon, burlesquer,
     card, caricaturist, clown, coauthor, collaborator, columnist,
     comedian, comic, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative writer,
     critic, cutup, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist,
     droll, encyclopedist, epigrammatist, essayist, free lance,
     free-lance writer, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, ghost,
     ghostwriter, inditer, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester,
     kidder, lampooner, literary artist, literary craftsman,
     literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, madcap,
     magazine writer, man of letters, merry-andrew, monographer,
     music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer,
     parodist, penwoman, poet, prankster, prose writer, punner, punster,
     quipster, reparteeist, reviewer, satirist, scenario writer,
     scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller,
     technical writer, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling,
     word painter, wordsmith, writer, zany
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  HUMORIST, n.  A plague that would have softened down the hoar
  austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with
  his best wishes, cat-quick.
  
      Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind
      See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined --
      Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray,
      His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day.
      He thinks, admitted to an equal sty,
      A graceful hog would bear his company.
                                                          Alexander Poke