Drollery

Quick meaning: Drollery is a noun meaning Comical quality.

Meaning

Comical quality.

More Meanings

1. Amusing behavior.
2. Something humorous, funny or comical.
3. A joke; a funny story.
4. A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.
5. (archaic) A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.

Example Sentences

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

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.

You might be impressed by the simultaneous appearance of "Cardeans", "Clans" and North British Atlantics, or engaged by the drolleries of the three shunting engines, one from each company.

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.

Word Forms

• drolleries
• drolerie

Synonyms for drollery

Depending on context, synonyms include comedy, waggery, funniness, clowning.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include waggery, funniness, clowning, comedy, drolling, nugacity.

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