different between drollery vs jocularity

English

Alternative forms

• drolerie (archaic)

Etymology

From French drôlerie, from drôle +? -erie; equivalent to droll +? -ery.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???l??i/

Noun

drollery (countable and uncountable, plural drolleries)

1. Comical quality.
   • 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 121:

     He found that Sally had a restrained, but keen, sense of the ridiculous, and she made remarks about the girls or the men who were set over them which amused him by their unexpected drollery.

2. Amusing behavior.
3. Something humorous, funny or comical.
4. (archaic) A puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
5. A joke; a funny story.
6. A small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript.

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “drollery”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

jocular +? -ity

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??kj??l???ti/

Noun

jocularity (countable and uncountable, plural jocularities)

1. Joking, humorous remarks or behaviour.
   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, p. 494,^[1]

     It should seem he had that day been in a humour for jocularity and merriment, and upon such occasions I never knew a man laugh more heartily.

   • 1824, Walter Scott, Redgauntlet, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., Volume III, Chapter 5, p. 156,^[2]

     […] Cristal Nixon at that moment rode up to them, and said, with an affectation of jocularity which sat very ill upon his sullen features, […]

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson, Chapter 74,

     All were armed with pistols, and there was a small armoury of rifles against a wall. “Guns,” I said with fearful jocularity, “in a holy place?”

   • 1989, Jack Vance, Madouc, Chapter Four,

     Madouc was neither pleased nor impressed by Prince Bittern’s mannerisms, and remained pointedly unresponsive to his lame jocularities.

Translations

Synonyms

• jokefulness