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Definition: Drollery |
DrolleryNoun1. A comic incident or series of incidents. 2. A quaint and amusing jest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drollery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Drollery \Droll"er*y\, noun; plural Drolleries. [French dr[^o]lerie. See Droll.]. (references) |
Synonyms: DrollerySynonyms: clowning (n), comedy (n), funniness (n), waggery (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Fun, frolic, merriment, jollity; joviality, jovialness; heyday; laughter; jocosity, jocoseness; drollery, buffoonery, tomfoolery; mummery, pleasantry; wit; quip, quirk. |
Ridiculousness | Noun: ridiculousness; Adjective: comicality, oddity; Adjective: extravagance, drollery. |
Wit | Noun: wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drollery |
| English words defined with "drollery": Drolleries ♦ Nugacity. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Drollery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drollery" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "drollery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مشهد هزلي, نادرة (anecdote, story), رسم هزلي. (various references) | |
Finnish | hullunkurisuus (absurdity, ludicrousness). (various references) | |
French | drôlerie (drollness), farce, caractère drôle. (various references) | |
German | skurrilität. (various references) | |
Greek | κωμικότησ (funniness, ludicrousness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ליצ ות (clowning, jesting, persiflage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | móka (crap, Dido, fun, game, joke, jollity, pantaloonery, skylark, waggishness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kelakar (antics, wisecrack). (various references) | |
Italian | buffoneria (buffoonery, grimaces). (various references) | |
Manx | gamshogeys (buffoonery, jesting). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ollerydray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | palhaçada (clownery, mummery), comicidade (comic, comicality, humor, humour, ludicrousness), brincadeira (a practical joke, badinage, banter, dalliance, diversion, escapade, frisk, frolic, fun, gag, gambol, game, gibe, gird, hoax, humor, humour, jape, jest, jibe, joke, joking, josh, lark, play, pleasantry, practical joke, prank, raillery, rig, sport, waggery). (various references) | |
Romanian | distracţie (absence-mindedness, amusement, dalliance, distraction, diversion, do, entertainment, frolic, fun, jest, jocularity, jollity, merriment, merry making, pastime, recreation, revel, skittle, sport, sporting), nostimadã, glume (high jinks, jesting), comedie (comedy, device, farce, sham, sock, trick), caraghioslâc (buffoonery, fun, tomfoolery), bufonerie (antic, buffoonery). (various references) | |
Russian | юмор (humor, humour), шутки (facetiae, jesting). (various references) | |
Spanish | dote (calling, capably, charisma, dowry, endowment, liking, marriage portion, portion, settlement, settling, talent), gracia (charm, cuteness, die, gain, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, humor, humour, loveliness, wit), bufonería (clownery). (various references) | |
Swedish | putslustighet, komik (comedy). (various references) | |
Turkish | tuhaf şey, maskaralık (antics, buffoonery, charade, fandangle, farce, foolery, mock, Mummery, playfulness, ridiculousness, tomfoolery), gariplik (crankiness, fad, fantasticality, grotesqueness, oddity, oddness, singularity, strangeness, whimsicality, whimsicalness), espri (crack, humor, humour, quip, quirk, Sally, salt, wisecrack, witticism), şaka (badinage, banter, chaff, fun, game, hell, humor, humour, jest, joke, lark, monkeyshiness, pleasantry, quiz, sport, waggery, waggishness, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смішна історія, чудакуватість (oddity, oddness), гумор (humor, humour), жарти (banter, facetiae, waggery). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trò khôi h i (burlesque, farce, mockery), trò hề (buffoonery, clownery, monkey business). (various references) | |
Welsh | ysmaldod (badinage, banter, fun). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nugacitatis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Drollery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dollery, drller, drolleru, drooler, druler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-l-o-r-r-y" | |
-1 letter: droller, orderly. | |
-2 letters: drolly, lordly, reroll, rolled, roller, yodler. | |
-3 letters: delly, derry, dolly, droll, dryer, lorry, odyle, older, order, redly, redry, yodel, yodle. | |
-4 letters: dell, doer, dole, doll, dore, dorr, dory, dyer, lode, lord, lore, lory, lyre, odyl, oldy, orle, oyer, redo, rely, rode, role, roll, yeld, yell, yore. | |
-5 letters: del, dey, doe, dol, dor. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-l-o-r-r-y" | |
+4 letters: otherworldly, procedurally. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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