Meanings of waggery in English

She did not smile; perhaps she felt such an approach to waggery unworthy of him.

One can fancy the composer's amusement at this highly-imaginative interpretation of his harmless bit of waggery.

The clown will laugh at a waggery, and the gentleman only at a stroke of delicate conceit.

Insolence made use of it to give offence; ignorance, to avoid exposing itself; and waggery, to create laughter.

With the waggery that cropped up at the most unexpected times, he turned to George with the question:

In the presence of such unearthly beauty, he blushed for the ignoble irrelevance of his waggery, his knowing look.

He had an eye of great quickness and vivacity, with a drollery and lurking waggery of expression that was irresistible.

Dolph soon became the abhorrence of all drowsy, housekeeping old citizens, who hated noise, and had no relish for waggery.

All the same, I pitied this clown for it, and I fancied in his wildest waggery the note of a real irascibility.

And seeing by the peculiar expression of the rogue's countenance, that some mad waggery was in preparation, I awaited the morrow with anxiety.

For a favourite son of Cork the rough edge of local tongue-waggery had been a new and dark experience over the last few years.

If he rambled into any fashionable coffee house, he became a mark for the insolent derision of fops and the grave waggery of Templars.

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, waggery, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt.

With the waggery of his nature this negro gravely informed them that he was really a wild animal that had been caught and tamed.

The liberties which he took with the names and reputations of public men showed that the old spirit of waggery was not dead within him.

Moon appeared as one driven to madness under his own legal cross-examination, which was conducted with a long forefinger and an air of ferocious waggery.