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drollery

noun
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As a noun, drollery means comical quality.

Meanings of drollery

8 meanings

noun

  1. Comical quality.

  2. Amusing behavior.

  3. Something humorous, funny or comical.

  4. A joke; a funny story.

  5. A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.

  6. A comic incident or series of incidents

    Similar: clowning, comedy, funniness

  7. A quaint and amusing jest

    Similar: waggery
Older and rare meanings (1)

  1. archaicA puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: a comic incident or series of incidents
clowningcomedyfunniness
noun: a quaint and amusing jest
waggery

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