different between humourist vs humorist

English

Etymology

humour +? -ist

Noun

humourist (plural humourists)

1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of humorist

English

Alternative forms

• humourist

Etymology

From humor +? -ist.

Noun

humorist (plural humorists)

1. (medicine, now rare, historical) Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist. [from 16th c.]
2. (obsolete) Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:

     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.

   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 175:

     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.

3. A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance. [from 17th c.]
4. One who studies or portrays the humours of people.

Coordinate terms

• comedian / comedienne
• comic
• clown
• jester

Translations

Romanian

Noun

humorist m (plural humori?ti, feminine equivalent humorist?)

1. Alternative spelling of umorist.