English Dictionary

drollery

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɹəʊləɹi/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 古語

Comical quality. / Amusing behavior. / Something humorous, funny or comical. / (archaic) A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature. / A joke; a funny story.

日本語の意味

滑稽さ、面白さ / 愉快な行動、面白い振る舞い / ユーモラスなもの、面白いもの / (古語) 人形芝居、滑稽劇、コミカルな娯楽、風刺画 / 冗談、面白い話

Her drollery lightened the tense meeting and made everyone laugh.

彼女の滑稽さが緊張した会議の雰囲気を和らげ、皆を笑わせた。

意味（1）

Comical quality.

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.

意味（2）

Amusing behavior.

意味（3）

Something humorous, funny or comical.

意味（4）

(archaic) A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.

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.

意味（5）

A joke; a funny story.

意味（6）

A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.

drolleries （ plural ）