drollery

[ droh-luh-ree ]

noun

, plural droll·er·ies.

1. something whimsically amusing or funny.
2. an oddly amusing story or jest.
3. a droll quality or manner; whimsical humor.
4. the action or behavior of a droll, waggish person; jesting.
5. a comic picture.
6. Archaic. a puppet show.

drollery

/ ˈdrəʊlərɪ /

noun

1. humour; comedy
2. rare.
   a droll act, story, or remark

Word History and Origins

Origin of drollery¹

1590–1600; droll + -ery; compare French drôlerie

Example Sentences

No stanza of the poem is more replete than this with a vein of painfully sarcastic drollery.

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The pen can give but a shadow of the drollery and devilry of the sweet, merry rogues that hailed the smiling morn.

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There was a kind of drollery about Mrs. Freke, which, with some people, made the odd things she said pass for wit.

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All of which drollery concluded with his announcement of place and date of his lecture, with still further gaiety at the end.

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He seemed to have a naïve spirit of drollery, and he related quite amusingly an experience of his railway journey.

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