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humorist (encz) | humorist,humorista n: Zdeněk Brož |
Humorist (gcide) | Humorist \Hu"mor*ist\, n. [Cf. F. humoriste.]
1. (Med.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the
humors. [archaic]
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2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character,
which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
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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.
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The reputation of wits and humorists. --Addison.
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humorist (wn) | humorist
n 1: someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way [syn:
humorist, humourist] |
humorist (devil) | 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
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humorista (czen) | humorista,humoristn: Zdeněk Brožhumorista,humourist Zdeněk Brož |
Humorist (gcide) | Humorist \Hu"mor*ist\, n. [Cf. F. humoriste.]
1. (Med.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the
humors. [archaic]
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2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character,
which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
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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.
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The reputation of wits and humorists. --Addison.
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Humoristic (gcide) | Humoristic \Hu`mor*is"tic\, a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist.
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