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Drollery vs Trollery - What's the difference?

drollery | trollery |

As nouns the difference between drollery and trollery

is that drollery is comical quality while trollery is behavior considered to be deliberately provocative or disruptive.

drollery

English

Noun

(drolleries)
  • Comical quality.
  • * 1915 , :
    • 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 .
  • Amusing behavior.
  • Something humorous, funny or comical.
  • (archaic) a puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
  • A joke; a funny story.

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    trollery

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal) Behavior considered to be deliberately provocative or disruptive.
  • * 2009 , , " Clive Thompson on the Taming of Comment Trolls", Wired , 23 March 2009:
    • Readers can set their filters so they see only comments with high ratings—and trollery effectively vanishes.