What's the difference between clowning and drollery?
Clowning
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Drollery
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
(n.) Something which serves to raise mirth
(n.) A puppet show; also, a puppet.
(n.) A lively or comic picture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Montage?” I said, dangerously tempted towards Brit drollery.
(2) There’s the sense that Depp is rolling out a shtick rather than a performance, taking the mannerisms born in Edward Scissorhands and nurtured in Sparrow – bird-like surprise, high-octane drollery – and letting them do the heavy lifting.
(3) He's a very English combination of self-effacement, drollery and dogmatism – a listed rectory in a suit and blue tie (unlike his more artistic brother, this paper's architecture critic, Rowan Moore).