Humorists - English meaning

noun

A piece of thick, stiff paper or thin pasteboard, in particular one used for writing or printing on.

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Some notes jotted down on a card

verb

Short for expansion card.

noun

A toothed implement or machine for carding wool.

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Distribute the wool evenly across the entire card until the teeth are barely showing through.

noun

A person who creates caricatures (= humorous drawings or descriptions that make someone's most noticeable features even more noticeable)

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A fine caricaturist, he prefers to work in acrylics., he worked as a caricaturist and opened a stud…

noun

An artist who draws cartoons.

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A political cartoonist for the local newspaper

noun

A person who draws cartoons

noun

Care taken to avoid danger or mistakes.

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Anyone receiving a suspect package should exercise extreme caution

verb

Say something as a warning.

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The chancellor cautioned that economic uncertainties remained

noun

A warning

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It’s a good time to invest, he said, but a word of caution is in order., use caution when approachi…

noun

A comic entertainer, especially one in a circus, wearing a traditional costume and exaggerated make-up.

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A circus clown

verb

Behave in a comical or playful way.

Usage examples:

Harvey clowned around pretending to be a dog

noun

An entertainer who wears silly clothes and makes people laugh by performing tricks without speech

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The people running this school are a bunch of clowns., stop clowning around and get serious!

noun

An entertainer on stage or television whose act is designed to make an audience laugh.

Usage examples:

They sat watching an irish comedian telling jokes

noun

A person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes and amusing stories or by copying the behavior or speech of famous people

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A stand-up comedian

noun

A female comedian.

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Her polished delivery and lightness of touch make her one a new generation of female comediennes, o…

adjective

Causing or meant to cause laughter.

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A comic monologue

noun

A comedian.

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He is training as a stand-up comic

adjective

Making you want to laugh; amusing

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A comic actor/performance/writer

noun

A low, wavering musical sound which is the typical call of many kinds of owl.

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Various yelps, hoots, screams, squawks, and other vocalizations are used by many species of primate…

verb

(of an owl) utter a hoot.

Usage examples:

Owls hooted, the new moon rose

noun

A professional joker or ‘fool’ at a medieval court, typically wearing a cap with bells on it and carrying a mock sceptre.

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The gray-furred child laughed, cavorting around the confused guards like a court jester in a mediev…

noun

(in earlier times) a man whose job was to tell jokes and make people laugh

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A court jester

noun

A person who is fond of joking.

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But the joke is on the joker, as any toddler could have told him.

noun

A person fond of making or telling jokes.

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He was an outgoing, fun-loving kid, the family jokester

noun

Someone who likes telling funny stories or making people laugh

verb

Make the spontaneous sounds and movements of the face and body that are the instinctive expressions of lively amusement and sometimes also of derision.

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He rarely smiled or laughed

noun

An act of laughing.

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She gave a loud, silly laugh

verb

To make the sounds and movements of the face and body that express happiness or amusement, or that sometimes express ridicule or anxiety

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The audience just laughed and laughed., that guy always makes me laugh., when i made a face at drew…

noun

A violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd.

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Riots broke out in the capital

verb

Take part in a violent public disturbance.

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Students rioted in paris

noun

A noisy and violent public gathering

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The streets in this district include south central los angeles, where the riots broke out two years…

verb

Give a long, loud, piercing cry or cries expressing extreme emotion or pain.

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They could hear him screaming in pain

noun

A long, loud, piercing cry expressing extreme emotion or pain.

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They were awakened by screams for help

verb

Utter a sudden loud cry

verb

(especially with reference to an animal's tail) move or cause to move rapidly to and fro.

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His tail began to wag

noun

A single rapid movement from side to side.

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A chirpy wag of the head

verb

Play truant from (school).

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He began hanging out with bad people and wagging school

noun

The capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence.

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She does not lack perception or native wit

verb

Have knowledge.

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I addressed a few words to the lady you wot of