drollery

drollery
/droh"leuh ree/, n., pl. drolleries.
1. something whimsically amusing or funny.
2. an oddly amusing story or jest.
3. a droll quality or manner; whimsical humor.
4. the action or behavior of a droll, waggish person; jesting.
5. a comic picture.
6. Archaic. a puppet show.
[1590-1600; DROLL + -ERY; cf. F drôlerie]

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  • Drollery — 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. [1913 Webster] The rich drollery of She Stoops to Conquer. Macaulay. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • drollery — 1590s, from Fr. drôlerie (16c.), from drôle (see DROLL (Cf. droll)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • drollery — [drōl′ər ē] n. pl. drolleries [Fr drôlerie] 1. a droll act, remark, story, etc. 2. the act of joking 3. quaint or wry humor …   English World dictionary

  • drollery — droll ► ADJECTIVE ▪ amusing in a strange or quaint way. DERIVATIVES drollery noun drollness noun drolly adverb. ORIGIN French, perhaps from Dutch drolle imp, goblin …   English terms dictionary

  • drollery — noun (plural eries) Date: 1597 1. something that is droll; especially a comic picture or drawing 2. the act or an instance of jesting or burlesquing 3. whimsical humor …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • drollery — noun a) comical quality. b) amusing behaviour …   Wiktionary

  • drollery — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. buffoonery, humor, pleasantry; see joke 1 , 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality of being laughable or comical: comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollness, farcicality, funniness, humor, humorousness, jocoseness,… …   English dictionary for students

  • drollery — droll·er·y || drəʊlÉ™rɪ n. comical behaviour; humorous joke or story; something funny; amusing quality …   English contemporary dictionary

  • drollery — n. Pleasantry, fun, facetiousness, waggishness, waggery, buffoonery, comicality …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • drollery — noun (C, U) old fashioned humour …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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