funniment
Noun
Drollery, jesting, a funny saying or action.
Usage- Countable
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For the funniments of the fair, I confess I have little relish. Springing a rattle, I always deemed something too serious for a joke; and no nautical gentleman ever yet laughed at having his back scratched.
[…]; and at some of Barry’s funniments the Prince of Wales and his royal sister laughed[…]
His disguise as the Baron Mugwump also lent itself to much funniment.
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Therefore he has Berowne leave the stage first, lets Costard lag behind for a little solitary funniment, and then bolt after Berowne. If the funniment raises a laugh, that breaks contact, as it were, and continuity.
Mrs. Levine, mother of former Councilman Arnold Levine, totes around an array of jokes and general funniments.
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funniments