Definitions for drollery

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drollery droll·er·y

Spelling: [droh-luh-ree]

IPA: /ˈdroʊ lə ri/

Drollery is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in drollery (dellorry).

Definitions for drollery

noun

1. something whimsically amusing or funny.
2. an oddly amusing story or jest.
3. a droll quality or manner; whimsical humor.
4. the action or behavior of a droll, waggish person; jesting.
5. a comic picture.
6. Archaic. a puppet show.

Origin of drollery

1590-1600; droll + -ery; compare French drôlerie

Examples for drollery

Then his face broke into a grin that might hardly be called of drollery.

The herring-agents at the hotel table were full of drollery.

The boy was full of vivacity, drollery, and innocent mischief.

And the Commodore had to wipe his eyes, with the laughter at his drollery.

"You must have your drollery," he said, unsteadily, at length.

Stapylton joined in the laugh with which M'Cormick welcomed his own drollery.

I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.

I have said that these illustrations are full of point and drollery.

How I chuckled when I saw that he broke down in his attempt at drollery.

Whittier's play on this fact is in the best vein of his drollery.