drollery / ˈdroʊ lə ri /

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drollery 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural droll·er·ies.

  1. something whimsically amusing or funny.
  2. an oddly amusing story or jest.
  3. a droll quality or manner; whimsical humor.
  4. the action or behavior of a droll, waggish person; jesting.
  5. a comic picture.
  6. Archaic. a puppet show.

drollery 近义词

n. 名词 noun

whimsicalness

更多drollery例句

  1. No stanza of the poem is more replete than this with a vein of painfully sarcastic drollery.
  2. The pen can give but a shadow of the drollery and devilry of the sweet, merry rogues that hailed the smiling morn.
  3. There was a kind of drollery about Mrs. Freke, which, with some people, made the odd things she said pass for wit.
  4. All of which drollery concluded with his announcement of place and date of his lecture, with still further gaiety at the end.
  5. He seemed to have a naïve spirit of drollery, and he related quite amusingly an experience of his railway journey.