waggery
- n waggish behavior
- n a quaint and amusing jest
- Cartoonists out of ideas and pseudo-humorists of all sorts have often seen fit to air their waggery at the expense of that well-paid journeyman, the skilled plumber.
- The maladroit inspirations uncovered in Blindfold run from Negro and Italian dialect humor to some waggery about a boyish archvillain (Guy Stockwell) who stutters under stress.
- Such oratorical omelets, composed of Southern corn, overblown poetical allusions, rough waggery and incoherent rambling have seldom been presented in the halls of Congress since .