drollery
Americannoun
plural
drolleries-
something whimsically amusing or funny.
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an oddly amusing story or jest.
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a droll quality or manner; whimsical humor.
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the action or behavior of a droll, waggish person; jesting.
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a comic picture.
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Archaic. a puppet show.
noun
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humour; comedy
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rare a droll act, story, or remark
Etymology
Origin of drollery
Example Sentences
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The drollery in “Seasons” is based on the eternal question about what can, and invariably will, go wrong next.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
The result was an interview brimming with drollery and repartee, as they talked about the rumours of a Beatles reunion, the future of rock music, and life with the Wings.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023
“Yellow Submarine” started out as a lament — “In the place where I was born/No one cared,” Lennon sang at first — but turned into sound effects-laden drollery.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2022
She has a fine sense of drollery, her timing is exquisite, and her manner gentle and touching when the plot darkens and calamity looms.
From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2022
Much, indeed, that is considered comic in music possesses the same sort of drollery that belongs in comic writing to grammatical errors, or to mistakes in spelling.
From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Edwards, Henry Sutherland
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