English Dictionary

drollery

/ˈdɹəʊləɹi/

noun

Comical quality. / Amusing behavior. / Something humorous, funny or comical. / (archaic) A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature. / A joke; a funny story.

The comedian's drollery had the audience in stitches.

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

Amusing behavior.

意味（3）

Something humorous, funny or comical.

意味（4）

(archaic) 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

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.

意味（5）

A joke; a funny story.

意味（6）

A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.