Thesaurus: drollery

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1. n. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
2. n. Something which serves to raise mirth
3. n. A puppet show; also, a puppet.
4. n. A lively or comic picture.
5. n. a comic incident or series of incidents
6. n. a quaint and amusing jest
7. 1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay. 2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: (a) A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] Shak. (b) A lively or comic picture. [Obs.] I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn.
8. n:100 n. a comic incident or series of incidents n. a quaint and amusing jest