waggery old use

For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.

He seems to have fulfilled his original purpose, rocketing her into the upper echelons of Waggery, and it would be a canny career move.

No waggery about any of this, particularly if one lives the loneliness of a writer's life and depends on putting words on paper for a living.

A grim laugh from the whole party proclaimed their appreciation of the pious waggery of their companion.

In contrast, his works sometimes include a romanticism which combines eroticism and waggery with more erudite influences such as Petrarch.

Fashion writer Shane Watson coined a collective noun, "waggery".

He had an eye of great quickness and vivacity, with a drollery and lurking waggery of expression that was irresistible.

Contemporary accounts called Rice "the Democritus of the sawdust," the "prince of waggery" - and the "excruciating jester."

If he rambled into any fashionable coffee-house, he became a mark for the insolent derision of fops, and the grave waggery of Templars.

Le Maitre adopted the idea, which seemed to give his revenge the appearance of satire and waggery; in short, we went boldly to Reydelet, who received us very kindly.

A bit of conceptual waggery, this short riffs on the classic schoolroom poster that shows man walking toward his evolutionary terminus, from hairy ape to stubbly Neanderthal and beyond.

Ingle assumed his pseudonym during a touring trip to Ireland, when one member of the party gave his name as Sir Charles Ingle in a "spirit of waggery".

One imitative little imp covered his face with an old black handkerchief, thereby so affrighting his playmates that the panic seized himself, and he well-nigh lost his wits by his own waggery.

And so, an indulgent round of reminiscences from some of the current crew about Their First Day At The NME - the expectations, the illusions, the public school waggery from the older boys.

There was something extremely provoking in this obstinately pacific system; it left Brom no alternative but to draw upon the funds of rustic waggery in his disposition, and to play off boorish practical jokes upon his rival.

The waggery becomes evident in the film when two of the Yes Men, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, show up in Tampere, Finland, for an August 2001 trade conference called "Textiles of the Future."

And it's precisely because Greg loves Pam that all the waggery in the first film hinged on the disapproval that her father, Jack (Robert De Niro), rained down on the dark head of her then boyfriend, now fiancé.

Yet ultimately the most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicok's compact, well-turned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itself, a sweet waggery that suggests there's almost no problem that can't be solved by this poet's gentle humor.

Mr Matthew Arnold's compliment was very like Mr Arnold's humour: "Your father has been our most popular poet for over forty years, and I am of opinion that he fully deserves his reputation": such was "Mat's sublime waggery."

"This is a country of banditry," he told Virgil, "or for anyone bent on scala waggery He had learned from Fuentes that bandits here put up signs on the road that said MONEY OR MUTILATION.