drollery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Comical quality. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. Amusing behavior. countable,uncountable
  3. Something humorous, funny or comical. countable,uncountable
    — "I'm pregnant." "No drolleries this morning please." "Three months."
  4. A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Sebastian: A liuing Drolerie : now I will beleeue That there are Vnicornes : that in Arabia There is one Tree, the Phœnix throne, one Phœnix At this houre reigning there.
  5. A joke; a funny story. countable,uncountable
  6. A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript. countable,uncountable

词形变化

drolleries plural drolerie alternative

词源

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