humorist

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The man who becomes a humorist is the man who contrives to retain a certain childlike zest and freshness of mind side by side with a large and tender tolerance.

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  1. noun A person with a good sense of humor.
  2. noun A performer or writer of humorous material.

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  • Although the Scribners did not publish Mark Twain's books, the humorist was a frequent visitor to the retail store, and occasionally he would wander back to the publishing department located at the rear of the store, which was then at 743 Broadway. —  A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
  • The room included a humorist, a political cartoonist, a marketing maven and a gentleman farmer slash film producer. —  StraightUpSearch
  • Updike the humorist is probably the least known or recognizable Updike of them all, but something of the White-cum-Thurber sound of the —  The New Yorker
  • Suzann Ledbetter is a gifted humorist, a columnist for Family Circle magazine, and author of 21 mysteries, historical fiction, and non-fiction books.
  • _ Ogden Nash, American author-humorist (1902-1971). —  WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
 

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  1. = French humoriste (def. 1); as humor + -ist.
 

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/ˈjumərɪst/
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