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drollery in Italian

drollery in Italian is buffoneria — drollery means the quality of being funny or comical.

drollery in Italian

buffoneria
noun
Amusing behavior.

What does "drollery" mean?

  1. noun The quality of being funny or comical.
    "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."
  2. noun Behaviour that is funny or amusing.
  3. noun A funny or amusing thing.
    ""I'm pregnant." "No drolleries this morning please." "Three months.""
  4. noun A puppet show; a funny play or performance; a comic picture; a caricature.
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drollery in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • "I'm pregnant." "No drolleries this morning please." "Three months."

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What is "drollery" in Italian?
"drollery" in Italian is buffoneria. drollery means: The quality of being funny or comical.
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