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drollery
/ˈdɹəʊləɹi/
noun 5
Collocations
1ADJ.
unexpected
Definitions
noun
1
Comical quality.
He found that Sally had a restrained, but keen, sense of the ridiculous, and she made remarks about the girls or the men who were set over them which amused him by their unexpected drollery.
You might be impressed by the simultaneous appearance of "Cardeans", "Clans" and North British Atlantics, or engaged by the drolleries of the three shunting engines, one from each company.
2
Amusing behavior.
3
Something humorous, funny or comical.
"I'm pregnant." "No drolleries this morning please." "Three months."
4
A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
Sebastian: A liuing Drolerie : now I will beleeue That there are Vnicornes : that in Arabia There is one Tree, the Phœnix throne, one Phœnix At this houre reigning there.
5
A joke; a funny story.
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He found that Sally had a restrained, but keen, sense of the ridiculous, and she made remarks about the girls or the men who were set over them which amused him by their unexpected drollery.
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You might be impressed by the simultaneous appearance of "Cardeans", "Clans" and North British Atlantics, or engaged by the drolleries of the three shunting engines, one from each company.
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"I'm pregnant." "No drolleries this morning please." "Three months."
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