drollery
drollery Lexical Profile
drollery Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The quality of being quaintly amusing, whimsical, or dryly comical; dry or offbeat humor.
"The novel is celebrated for its understated drollery and sharp observations of suburban life."
A quaintly amusing remark, jest, or comical trick.
"He entertained the dinner guests with a series of clever drolleries and anecdotes."
A small, grotesque, or humorous figure painted or carved in the margins of medieval illuminated manuscripts.
"Art historians examined the playful marginal drolleries depicting rabbits jousting with knights in the fourteenth-century psalter."
• Rhymes for drollery
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from French 'drôlerie', derived from 'drôle' (amusing or comical), which likely originated from Middle Dutch 'drolle' meaning a little fat fellow, imp, or goblin.