noun.
a puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
noun.
a joke; a funny story.
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noun.
a comic incident or series of incidents
noun.
a quaint and amusing jest
Word Usage
"Daumier handled them with a want of ceremony which would have been brutal were it not for the element of science in his work, making them immense and unmistakable in their drollery, or at least in their grotesqueness; for the term drollery suggests gayety, and Daumier is anything but gay."