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drollery

  • /ˈdɹəʊləɹi/

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From French drôlerie, from drôle + -erie; equivalent to droll + -ery.

noun drolleries · drolerie

  1. countable, uncountable 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.
  2. countable, uncountable Amusing behavior.
  3. countable, uncountable Something humorous, funny or comical. "I'm pregnant." "No drolleries this morning please." "Three months."
  4. archaic, countable, uncountable 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. countable, uncountable A joke; a funny story.
  6. countable, uncountable A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.

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noun comical quality

Русскийю́мор júmor, коми́чность komíčnostʹ

noun amusing behavior

Italianobuffoneria
Русскийзаба́вность zabávnostʹ

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"drollery." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/drollery. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{drollery_2026,
  title = {drollery},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/drollery},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}