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waggery|ˈwægərɪ|
[f. wag n.2 + -ery.]
1. The action or disposition of a wag; drollery, jocularity; in early use chiefly, mischievous drollery, practical joking.
1594Lyly Mother Bombie ii. i. 2 Now, if I could meete with Risio, it were a world of waggery. 1611Cotgr., Drolerie, rye, waggerie, good roguerie. 1650Cowley Guardian i. i, The Colonel's as full of waggery as an egge's full of meat. c1656Sir H. Cholmley Mem. (1787) 35, I, out of folly and waggery, began to kick one of them. 1737Chesterfield in C'tess Suffolk's Lett. (1824) II. 163 Since which he has contented himself with a little general waggery, as occasion offers, such as snatching the bread and butter out of a girl's hand [etc.]. 1762Foote Orator i. Wks. 1799 I. 199 The misapprehension of the second agent, or the ignorance or waggery of the third. 1824Miss Mitford Village I. 152 He was so good a fellow, so full of fun and waggery! 1832T. Creevey in C. Papers (1904) II. x. 243 She has a great deal of natural waggery. 1858J. Brown Horæ Subs., Locke & Sydenham, etc. 420 Excited by..the waggery of his more intellectual neighbours. 1894J. Knight David Garrick xiii. 252 One friend..perpetrated a harmless piece of waggery on the subject.
2. A waggish action or speech; in early use, a piece of mischievous jesting; a practical joke.
1604Breton Grimellos Fort. (Grosart) 9/2 If I should tell you the tenth part of the waggeries, that I passed through. a1654Selden Table Talk (Arb.) 97 An Ape when he has done some waggery. 1655tr. Com. Hist. Francion iii. 69, I must needs passe by severall pretty waggeries, which I committed during this my Non-age. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 183 John Birkenhead..pleased the generality of Readers with his waggeries and buffoonries. 1778S. Crisp Let. 8 Dec. in Mme. D'Arblay Diary (1891) I. 93 In most of our successful comedies there are frequent lively freedoms (and waggeries that cannot be called licentious, neither). 1850Thackeray Pendennis liii, In fact they indulged in a hundred sports, jocularities, waggeries, and petits jeux innocens. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xxix. 344 Not being a man given to little waggeries. |