Usually means: Playful, humorous behavior or remarks.
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  1. waggery: Merriam-Webster
  2. waggery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. waggery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. waggery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. waggery: Vocabulary.com
  6. waggery: Wordnik
  7. waggery: Wiktionary
  8. waggery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. waggery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. waggery: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. waggery: Dictionary.com
  12. Waggery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. waggery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. waggery: Rhymezone
  15. Waggery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. waggery: FreeDictionary.org
  17. waggery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. waggery: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. waggery: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (waggery)

▸ noun:  Droll behaviour characteristic of a wag.
▸ noun:  (countable) A droll remark or jest.

Similar:
waggishness, drollery, waggling, wagging, scallywaggery, scalawaggery, scallawaggery, drolling, waggler, high jinks, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, solemnity, gravity

Types:
banter, jesting, joke, joshing, kid, ribbing, tease, wisecrack, more...

Adjectives:
rustic, own, grave, timed, broad, successful, ill, quiet, rough, much, roguish

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Similar:
waggishness, drollery, waggling, wagging, scallywaggery, scalawaggery, scallawaggery, drolling, waggler, high jinks, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, solemnity, gravity

Types:
banter, jesting, joke, joshing, kid, ribbing, tease, wisecrack, more...

Adjectives:
rustic, own, grave, timed, broad, successful, ill, quiet, rough, much, roguish



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