waggery
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“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” has all the digital bells and whistles as well as much of the likable, self-aware waggery of the first.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2017
The New York Times' Manohla Dargis writes that "More is more and is, at times, just right in '22 Jump Street,' an exploding pinata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2014
More is more and is, at times, just right in “22 Jump Street,” an exploding piñata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014
You won't like it if … Your ideal of musical comedy is prim, Kit and the Widow-style waggery.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2011
But it was wagging very gently, and its waggery was addressed to one of the best girls in school.
From Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
They had all sorts of tricks, bywords, waggeries, of which the father could not understand the jest nor the secret.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
The adjutant and riding-master, making holiday, are both present--"to the front," as they call it, enjoying exceedingly the jests and waggeries of their younger comrades.
From M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." by G.J. Whyte-Melville
Perhaps he even grins over Amyas “burying alternately his face in the pasty and the pasty in his face,” or he tries to feel diverted by the Elizabethan waggeries of Frank.
From Essays in Little by Andrew Lang
Little did I imagine that the transaction of the three pauls that I by chance overheard that morning was to be the commencement of one of the drollest waggeries that ever came within my experience.
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Alexander Huth
Who does not know—at least by name—the Nisse, the being whose waggeries almost all bear the stamp of good-humoured frolic?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
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