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

As a nation we love to laugh and take great pleasure in wordplay, waggery and wit.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2010

“Why,” rejoined the old man, “he’s just the man that, mair nor a’ the rest, has borne the brunt o’ Robert’s fearsome waggery.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson

Bixiou had the whole history of his own times at his finger-ends, more particularly its scandalous chronicle, embellished by added waggeries of his own.

From The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac

Many great moralists have suffered from them: the gods are always up to such sardonic waggeries.

From Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

The adjutant and riding-master, making holiday, are both present--"to the front," as they call it, enjoying exceedingly the jests and waggeries of their younger comrades.

From M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." by G.J. Whyte-Melville

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

He had not, indeed, spoken of the thing contemplated as a folly, not being a man given to little waggeries of that nature; but he had been calm, unenthusiastic, and reasonable.

From The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope