Crossword-Solution: DROLLERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Drollery | n. | The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. |
| Drollery | n. | Something which serves to raise mirth |
| Drollery | n. | A puppet show; also, a puppet. |
| Drollery | n. | A lively or comic picture. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “DROLLERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Whimsical humor | 1 answer |
| Dry humor | 2 answers |
| Buffoonery | 17 answers |
| Jape | 17 answers |
| waggery | 39 answers |
| wittiness | 60 answers |
| Jest | 64 answers |
| Joke | 71 answers |
| Exhibition | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DROLLERY (5)
Old Sapt broke it by saying sadly, yet with an unmeant drollery that set Fritz and me laughing: “Why didn’t old Rudolf the Third marry your--great-grandmother, was it?” “Come,” said I, “it is the King we are thinking about.” “It is true,” said Fritz.
Lapham dropped nervelessly into the chair at the other window, and while the girl went slowly but briefly on, touching only the vital points of the story, and breaking at times into a bitter drollery, she sat as if without the power to speak or stir.
This left the picture allotted, with the exception of two or three more angels, who peeped or perched behind the main figures with a certain subdued drollery in their faces, as if the thing had gone on long enough, and it was now time to upset something or kick up a row of some sort.
Her laughter was pitiful to hear; it echoed through the silent room as in a vault, while she made some tremulously light remark about her husband's drollery, grim as a jest from the dying.
Men of letters, following in the painters’ wake, conspired suddenly to find artistic value in the turns; and red-nosed comedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female singers, who had bawled obscurely for twenty years, were discovered to possess inimitable drollery; there were those who found an aesthetic delight in performing dogs; while others exhausted their vocabulary to extol the distinction of conjurers and trick-cyclists.
Quotes with DROLLERY (2)
Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing i…
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1984–2008).