waggery

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• Here it was thought his broad fun, rustic waggery, and curious mastery of provincial dialect might admirably contrast with the melodramatic intensity, and the homely, but touching pathos of which in so eminent a degree he was the master. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
• Swift was often the butt of their waggery, which he bore with great good humor, knowing well, that though they laughed at his singularities, they esteemed his virtues, admired his wit, and venerated his wisdom Many were the frolics of the Scriblerus Club. —  Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
• In this copy the printer, as a satire on the age, omitted the word "not" from the seventh commandment, and for this piece of waggery was heavily fined, the money going, it is said, to establish the first Greek press ever erected at Oxford. —  Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885
• His only time of trial is when the general gets hold of him, who is infinitely heavy and persevering in his waggery, and will interweave a dull joke through the various topics of a whole dinner-time. —  Bracebridge Hall

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