Drollery /(?)/

Droll·er·y

Drollery

n.

pl. Drolleries

  1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
    The rich drollery of “She Stoops to Conquer.”
  2. Something which serves to raise mirth [Obs.]
    I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton.