waggery

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” has all the digital bells and whistles as well as much of the likable, self-aware waggery of the first.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2017

The New York Times' Manohla Dargis writes that "More is more and is, at times, just right in '22 Jump Street,' an exploding pinata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery."

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2014

More is more and is, at times, just right in “22 Jump Street,” an exploding piñata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014

You won't like it if … Your ideal of musical comedy is prim, Kit and the Widow-style waggery.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2011

He also administered several resounding blows-108- to Magnet's shoulder blades, and irradiated the party with a glow of benevolent waggery.

From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A thousand recollections of urchin waggeries spring up at its repetition.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829 by Various

Our family liked to tell of all sorts of waggeries to which I was enticed by these otherwise grave and solitary men.

From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by John Oxenford

See what the critics say of your harmless jokes, neat little trim sentences, and pet waggeries!

From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

All kinds of petty insults were heaped upon its pastors; while their place of worship was made the scene of vulgar waggeries and ribald jests.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

Friar Bacon kept a man to wait on him who, though but a simple fellow, yet a merry droll and full of waggeries.

From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various