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drollery|ˈdrəʊlərɪ|
Also 7 drol(l)erie, drolrie (drawlerie, drallery).
[a. F. drôlerie (1584 in Hatz.-Darm.; also draulerie in Cotgr.), f. drôle: see -ery.]
1. The action of a droll; waggery, jesting.
1653–4Whitelocke Jrnl. Swed. Emb. (1772) I. 279 So they parted in much drollerye. 1681Glanvill Sadducismus ii. (1726) 449 An affected humour of Drollery and Scoffing. 1743J. Morris Serm. vi. 202 Better..than to make it the subject of their jests and drollery. 1828Carlyle Misc. Ess., Burns (1872) II. 22 This [faculty of caricature] is Drollery rather than Humour. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets iv. 109 A humour for drollery and sarcasm.
2. Something humorous or funny:
†a. A comic play or entertainment; a puppet-show; a puppet.
1610Shakes. Temp. iii. iii. 21 What were these? A liuing Drolerie. 1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair Induct., Those that beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries. 1621Fletcher Wild Goose Chase i. ii, Our women the best linguists; they are parrots; O' this side the Alps they're nothing but mere drolleries. 1847Disraeli Tancred ii. xiii, A land that has never been blessed by that fatal drollery called a representative government.
†b. A comic picture or drawing; a caricature.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. i. 156 For thy walles, a pretty slight Drollery..is worth a thousand of these Bed-hangings. 1606Dekker Sev. Sinnes Ded., A Drollerie (or Dutch peece of Lantskop) may sometimes breed in the beholders eye, as much delectation, as the best and most curious master-peece excellent in that Art. 1641Evelyn Diary 13 Aug., We arrived late at Roterdam, where was their annual marte or faire, so furnished with pictures (especially Landskips and Drolleries, as they call those clounish representations) that [etc.]. 1888F. T. Palgrave in 19th Cent. Jan. 85 [Dutch] pictures..were not classed in the range of serious work; they bore commonly the significant name of Drolleries.
c. A jest; a facetious story or tale.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. i. 170 Let it be if you please a Drawlery upon it. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 121 The King is very much pleased with such Fictions and Drolleries. 1871R. Ellis Catullus l. 4 Scribbling drolleries each of us together.
3. The quality of being droll; quaint humour.
1742West Let. in Gray's Poems (1775) 143 Old words revived..add a certain drollery to the comic, and a romantic gravity to the serious. 1856Macaulay Goldsm. Misc. Writ. 1860 II. 255 The rich drollery of ‘She Stoops to Conquer’.
Hence droˈllerical a. nonce-wd., comical.
1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 15 This Drollerical Poem mightily augmented our Champion's Mirth. |