waggery

Questions about waggery

What does waggery mean?

waggery means "waggish behavior". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waggery?

waggery has 3 syllables: wag-ge-ry. The stress falls on "wag".

What is another word for waggery?

Close synonyms include waggishness, drollery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is waggery a common word?

waggery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.