outhumor

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outhumour

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

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