Definitions
someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way
Word origin
From humor + -ist.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
“Art Buchwald, who satirized the follies of the rich, the famous and the powerful for half a century as the most widely read newspaper humorist of his time, died Wednesday night in Washington.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Funny writer”8 letters
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