DROLLERY

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay.

2.
n.

Something which serves to raise mirth; as:

3.
n.

A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] Shak.

4.
n.

A lively or comic picture. [Obs.] I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn.


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