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outhumour

outhumour is the alternative form 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

Forms of outhumour

third-person singular presentouthumours
present participleouthumouring
past participleouthumoured
pastouthumoured

Origin of outhumour

From out- + humour.

Questions about outhumour

What is outhumour the alternative form of?
Outhumour is the alternative form of outhumor.

Words near outhumour in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outhumour (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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