jocosity
61waggery — n. Jocularity, facetiousness, drollery, pleasantry, humor, fun, waggishness, mischievous merriment, sport, roguery, jocosity, jocoseness …
62jocose — adjective literary joking jocosely adverb jocoseness, jocosity noun (U) …
63chaff — I n 1. husks, shucks, hulls, glumes, pods, shells; cases, casings, outer coverings; peels, skins, rinds. 2. refuse. Dial. culch, rubbish, garbage, waste, Brit. wastrel, discarded matter; offal, carrion, rot, spoil; offscourings, dregs, draff,… …
64comedy — n 1. farce, comic opera, It. commedia dell arte. comedy of manners, comedy of errors, musical, musical comedy; burlesque, Theat. burletta, commedietta, travesty, sock, skit; parody, satire, lampoon, gallows humor; harlequinade, pantomime,… …
65folly — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, inanity, point lessness, fatuousness; senselessness, nonsense, nonsen sicalness, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, Archaic. insipience; unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicalness, illogicality; preposterousness,… …
66foolishness — n 1. senselessness, meaninglessness, thoughtlessness, shallowness, vacantness, blankness, vacuousness, emptiness; vapidity, vapidness, insipidity, insipidness, flatness, dullness, tediousness; stupidity, asininity, imbecility, idioticalness,… …
67humor — n 1. comedy, funniness, facetiousness, drollery; wit, ready wit, wittiness, Attic wit, dry wit; gallows humor, black comedy; jocularity, waggishness, banter, raillery; badinage, persiflage, repartee, quip, wisecrack, sarcasm; irony, satire,… …
68nonsense — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, nonsensi calness, nonsensicality; ridiculousness, ridiculosity, ludicrousness; asininity, stupidity, fatuity, fatuousness; meaninglessness, self contradiction, contradiction, invalidity; incongruity, incongruousness,… …
69persiflage — n banter, badinage, repartee, word play, verbal wit, wittiness; pleasantry, frivolity, fun and games, clowning or fooling around, buffoonery; jesting, joking, levity, humor, drollery, jocularity, jocosity, waggery; teasing, twitting, taunting,… …
70shenanigan — n Usu. shenanigans Informal. tomfoolery, antics, Sl. monkeyshines, Sl. monkey business; mischief, prankishness, Inf. hanky panky, Scot, and North Eng. daffing; prank, antic, caper, escapade, trick, practical joke, roguish trick, Fr. espieglerie;… …
