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

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

He also administered several resounding blows-108- to Magnet's shoulder blades, and irradiated the party with a glow of benevolent waggery.

From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

He had not, indeed, spoken of the thing contemplated as a folly, not being a man given to little waggeries of that nature; but he had been calm, unenthusiastic, and reasonable.

From The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope

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

They enjoy him as he is: they examine one another in his books: they gossip on by the hour about his innumerable characters, his never-to-be-forgotten waggeries and fancies.

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison