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

Indeed I have likewise known him to be guilty of positive waggery; but it must be confessed that in this line his attempts were few and far between, and not always successful.

From Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by William L. (William Leete) Stone

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

Behind the scenes he would mock and gibe at himself, had odd remarks to make about his face or his costume, and was alive with waggeries and witticisms.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various

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

Many great moralists have suffered from them: the gods are always up to such sardonic waggeries.

From Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

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