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outhumoring

outhumoring is the present participle and gerund of outhumor.

Meaning of outhumor

Verb

outhumor (third-person singular simple present outhumors, present participle outhumoring, simple past and past participle outhumored)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in humor; to be funnier than.
    • Charley Davis, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, tells a story about Mark Twain, in which the humorist was for once outhumored.1895, Current Literature: 1895, volume 17, page 201

Questions about outhumoring

What is outhumoring the present participle and gerund of?
Outhumoring is the present participle and gerund of outhumor.

Words near outhumoring in the dictionary

  1. outhowled
  2. outhowling
  3. outhowls
  4. outhumor
  5. outhumored
  6. outhumoring
  7. outhumors
  8. outhumour
  9. outhumoured
  10. outhumouring
  11. outhumours

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outhumoring (page history and authors); outhumor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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