Meaning of drollery | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“"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.”

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