drollery
pronunciation
How to pronounce drollery in British English:
UK ['drəʊlərɪ]
How to pronounce drollery in American English:
US [ˈdrolərɪ]
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- Noun:
- a comic incident or series of incidents
- a quaint and amusing jest
Word Origin
- drollery (n.)
- 1590s, from French drôlerie (16c.), from drôle (see droll).
Example
- 1. We all enjoyed his drollery .
- 2. Waggish behavior or spirit ; drollery .
- 3. The pragmatics mechanism of the production of linguistic humor in afant s drollery stories .
- 4. Because afraid quieting , quare on purpose gaggery , but usually become the drollery .