Drollery

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  • noun. A comical or whimsical quality.
  • noun. A comical or whimsical way of acting, talking, or behaving.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of joking; clowning.
  • noun. Something, such as a story, that is comical or whimsical.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The conduct of a droll, buffoon, or wag; something done to raise mirth; sportive tricks; buffoonery; fun.
  • noun. The character of being droll; comicalness; humor.
  • noun. Comical action, as in a dramatic representation; something used or done to excite mirth.
  • noun. A comic picture.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
  • noun. Something which serves to raise mirth.
  • noun. A puppet show; also, a puppet.
  • noun. A lively or comic picture.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. comical quality.
  • noun. amusing behaviour.
  • noun. something humorous, funny or comical.
  • noun. a puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
  • noun. a joke; a funny story.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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."
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    fun  jest  jocularity  joke  play  
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