drollery
/ˈdɹəʊləɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.38 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
Archaic; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "You might be impressed by the simultaneous appearance of "Cardeans", "Clans" and North British Atlantics, or engaged by the drolleries of the three shunting engines, one from each company."
- ""I'm pregnant." "No drolleries this morning please." "Three months.""
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French