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Drollery

Drollery Meaning & Definition
Drollery Definition And Meaning

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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