waggeries
- plural of waggery.
Example Sentences
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See what the critics say of your harmless jokes, neat little trim sentences, and pet waggeries!
From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Who does not know—at least by name—the Nisse, the being whose waggeries almost all bear the stamp of good-humoured frolic?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
Our family liked to tell of all sorts of waggeries to which I was enticed by these otherwise grave and solitary men.
From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Oxenford, John
Friar Bacon kept a man to wait on him who, though but a simple fellow, yet a merry droll and full of waggeries.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
They had all sorts of tricks, bywords, waggeries, of which the father could not understand the jest nor the secret.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
