About The Word Drollery
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Drollery
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What's The Definition Of Drollery?
[n] a quaint and amusing jest
[n] a comic incident or series of incidents Synonyms | Synonyms for Drollery: clowning | comedy | funniness | waggery Related Terms | Find terms related to Drollery: See Also | fun | jest | jocularity | joke | play | sport Drollery In Webster's Dictionary \Droll"er*y\, n.; pl. {Drolleries}. [F. dr[^o]lerie.
See {Droll}.]
1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery;
droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
The rich drollery of ``She Stoops to Conquer.'' --
Macaulay.
2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as:
(a) A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] --Shak.
(b) A lively or comic picture. [Obs.]
I bought an excellent drollery, which I
afterward parted with to my brother George of
Wotton. -- Evelyn.
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