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Waggery

noun
(pl. waggeries)
1.
Waggish behavior.  Synonym: waggishness.
2.
A quaint and amusing jest.  Synonym: drollery.





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"Waggery" Quotes from Famous Books



... itself into my ribs. He was extremely thin and bony, with a long, drooping nose set very much to one side, and was possessed of a remarkable pair of eyes—that is to say, one eyelid hung continually lower than the other, thus lending to his otherwise sinister face an air of droll and unexpected waggery that ...
— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol


Words linked to "Waggery" :   joke, sport, jocularity, fun, play, waggishness, jest, drollery


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