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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : droh-luh-ree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdroʊ lə ri |
Definition of drollery
Origin :- 1590s, from French drôlerie (16c.), from drôle (see droll).
- noun whimsicalness
- Whittier's play on this fact is in the best vein of his drollery.
- Extract from : « Whittier-land » by Samuel T. Pickard
- How I chuckled when I saw that he broke down in his attempt at drollery.
- Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II) » by Edmund Downey
- And the Commodore had to wipe his eyes, with the laughter at his drollery.
- Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
- Stapylton joined in the laugh with which M'Cormick welcomed his own drollery.
- Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever
- The herring-agents at the hotel table were full of drollery.
- Extract from : « Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland » by Daniel Turner Holmes
- I have said that these illustrations are full of point and drollery.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 » by Various
- Then his face broke into a grin that might hardly be called of drollery.
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard I. Pyle
- "You must have your drollery," he said, unsteadily, at length.
- Extract from : « Under the Rose » by Frederic Stewart Isham
- The boy was full of vivacity, drollery, and innocent mischief.
- Extract from : « Washington Irving » by Charles Dudley Warner
- I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.
- Extract from : « The Gilded Age, Complete » by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
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