drollery

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Comical quality.
2. noun Amusing behavior.
3. noun Something humorous, funny or comical.
4. noun A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
5. noun A joke; a funny story.
6. noun A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.

Similar words

waggery funniness clowning comedy drolling nugacity jocularity persiflage raillery fol-de-rol

Often followed by

of and in that which is as to was

Word family

drolleries