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

The story of the chest was an excellent theme for fun and waggery in the village.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

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

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

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

Our family liked to tell of all sorts of waggeries to which I was enticed by these otherwise grave and solitary men.

From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by John Oxenford