humorist

English

Alternative forms

humourist

Etymology

humor +‎ -ist

Noun

humorist (plural humorists)

A person who writes or performs humorous material.
- 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.

Coordinate terms

Translations

writer of humor

Belarusian: гумары́ст m (humarýst), гумары́стка f (humarýstka)
Bulgarian: хумори́ст m (humoríst)
French: humoriste (fr) m or f
German: Humorist (de) m, Humoristin f
Italian: umorista (it) m or f

Latvian: humorists m, humoriste f
Romanian: umorist (ro) m, umoristă (ro) f
Russian: юмори́ст (ru) m (jumoríst), юмори́стка (ru) f (jumorístka)
Ukrainian: гумори́ст m (humorýst), гумори́стка f (humorýstka)
Yiddish: הומאָריסט‎ m (humorist)

Romanian

Noun

humorist m (plural humoriști, feminine equivalent humoristă)

Alternative spelling of umorist.

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