n. The state or character of being waggish; mischievous sport; wanton merriment; jocularity; also, a joke or trick.
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n. waggish behavior
Word Usage
"They dress like clergymen, and affect that mixture of clerical solemnity and clerical waggishness which is generally to be found among minor canons and vicars choral of a cathedral."