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Drollery

//ˈdɹəʊləɹi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Comical quality. countable, uncountable

    "He found that Sally had a restrained, but keen, sense of the ridiculous, and she made remarks about the girls or the men who were set over them which amused him by their unexpected drollery."

  2. 2
    a quaint and amusing jest wordnet
  3. 3
    Amusing behavior. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a comic incident or series of incidents wordnet
  5. 5
    Something humorous, funny or comical. countable, uncountable

    ""I'm pregnant." "No drolleries this morning please." "Three months.""

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  1. 6
    A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "Sebastian: A liuing Drolerie : now I will beleeue That there are Vnicornes : that in Arabia There is one Tree, the Phœnix throne, one Phœnix At this houre reigning there."

  2. 7
    A joke; a funny story. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From French drôlerie, from drôle + -erie; equivalent to droll + -ery.

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