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Meanings of drollery in English

Portuguese
comédia
Catalan
anècdota
Spanish
anécdota

A comic incident or series of incidents.

        comédia
        Catalan
        humorada
        Spanish
        payasada

        A quaint and amusing jest.

              humorada
              Usage of drollery in English
              1
              The piccolo, in highest treble, inverts the second melody, in impertinent drollery.
              Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies
              2
              The villagers gathered to see the city folks pursue their mad drollery.
              The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million
              3
              The admirable drollery in Congreve about Lady Froth's verses on her coachman-
              Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — ...
              4
              This is a little piece of drollery that I thought of myself.
              Remarks
              5
              Action rhymes, by reason of their practical drollery, never fail to amuse.
              Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children'...
              6
              I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.
              The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
              7
              Everybody felt better for this touch of drollery except the captain.
              The Last Shot
              8
              This is what makes Sancho Panza's drollery the despair of the conscientious translator.
              Don Quixote
              9
              Richard Wagner's music is not famous for its hilarity and drollery.
              Radio NZ
              10
              The old man suddenly smiled at him, all quaint drollery again.
              Hillsboro People
              11
              Boldness, drollery, dramatic spirit, force, and spontaneous satire characterize both artists.
              Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
              12
              The drollery in the voice was more touching than amusing.
              The Place Beyond the Winds
              13
              But all yield in grim drollery to the last given:-
              The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
              14
              Of all the men I have encountered, he was the surest fund of drollery.
              An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
              15
              Teddy did the same, and a great roar was the reward of their drollery.
              The Circus Boys in Dixie Land; Or, Winning the Plaudits of the S...
              16
              There was a suspicion of drollery in his reproachful tones.
              The Grey Cloak
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              Translations for drollery
              Portuguese
              comédia
              Drollery through the time
              Drollery across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common