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humourist

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Noun1.humourist - someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way
humorist
entertainer - a person who tries to please or amuse
lampooner, parodist - mimics literary or musical style for comic effect
punster - someone overly fond of making puns
ironist, ridiculer, satirist - a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
wag, wit, card - a witty amusing person who makes jokes


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"Very fine, indeed, sir," she returned, with something of a blush, and a shy deprecating look that seemed to beg me not to notice the peculiarly quaint antics which the wind, evidently a humourist, chose at that moment to execute with the female garments upon the line.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
Henceforth we have to follow the spectacle of a man who was a mere whip-top for calamity; on whose unmerited misadventures not even the humourist can look without pity, and not even the philosopher without alarm.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
He was a humourist in his way; and there was an absurd side to the situation which rather amused him.
The Haunted Hotel by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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