drollery, waggery
(noun) a quaint and amusing jest
drollery, clowning, comedy, funniness
(noun) a comic incident or series of incidents
Source: WordNet® 3.1
drollery (countable and uncountable, plural drolleries)
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.
A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.
Source: Wiktionary
Droll"er*y, n.; pl. Drolleries. Etym: [F. drôlerie. See Droll.]
1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay.
2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: (a) A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] Shak. (b) A lively or comic picture. [Obs.] I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 April 2025
(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
