"drollery" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdɹəʊləɹi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-drollery.wav Forms: drolleries [plural]
Etymology: From French drôlerie, from drôle + -erie; equivalent to droll + -ery. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|drôlerie}} French drôlerie, {{suf|fr|drôle|erie|nocat=1}} drôle + -erie, {{suf|en|droll|ery}} droll + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} drollery (countable and uncountable, plural drolleries)
  1. Comical quality. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (comical quality): ábhacht [feminine] (Irish), áiféis [feminine] (Irish), aisteachas [masculine] (Irish), aistiúlacht [feminine] (Irish), anstrólaíocht [feminine] (Irish), barrúlacht [feminine] (Irish), léaspartaíocht [feminine] (Irish), komizm [masculine] (Polish), zabawność [feminine] (Polish), ю́мор (júmor) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-drollery-en-noun-Tadq8pJm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ery, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 17 4 20 2 7 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ery: 62 11 4 12 4 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 61 12 4 10 4 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 55 12 5 16 3 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 78 6 3 6 3 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 66 9 5 11 3 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 63 11 5 12 3 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 78 7 3 6 3 5 Disambiguation of 'comical quality': 86 4 5 4 0 1
  2. Amusing behavior. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (amusing behavior): léaspartaíocht [feminine] (Irish), anstrólaíocht [feminine] (Irish), чудакова́тость (čudakovátostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-drollery-en-noun-YwcEm7Is Disambiguation of 'amusing behavior': 7 80 8 4 1 1
  3. Something humorous, funny or comical. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-drollery-en-noun-8p1J0zzK
  4. (archaic) A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-drollery-en-noun-1YM~ODPx
  5. A joke; a funny story. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-drollery-en-noun-xjY9bWrm
  6. A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-drollery-en-noun-j8rrBAyt
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: drolerie [archaic]

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (eaa6b66 and a709d4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.