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Word entry · 8 letters

drollery

Best crossword clue

"Amusing behavior"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɹəʊləɹi/Part of speech nounSorted dellorryStarts with DEnds with Y1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a quaint and amusing jest

Word origin

From French drôlerie, from drôle + -erie; equivalent to droll + -ery.

Used in a sentence

  • 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."

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