waggery

“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

As a nation we love to laugh and take great pleasure in wordplay, waggery and wit.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2010

He develops an offensive waggery, shakes the forefinger that has detected an escapade, and makes of his lips the round O of shocked propriety, at heart in sympathy with the transgressor.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

A thousand recollections of urchin waggeries spring up at its repetition.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829 by Various

Friar Bacon kept a man to wait on him who, though but a simple fellow, yet a merry droll and full of waggeries.

From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various

Bixiou had the whole history of his own times at his finger-ends, more particularly its scandalous chronicle, embellished by added waggeries of his own.

From The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac

See what the critics say of your harmless jokes, neat little trim sentences, and pet waggeries!

From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

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