Drollery

Origin

From French drôlerie.

Full definition of drollery

Noun

1. Comical quality.
• 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, "", :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.
3. Something humorous, funny or comical.
4. (archaic) a puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
5. A joke; a funny story.