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facetiae
Part of speech: NounWitticisms in speaking or writing.
Usage examples "facetiae":- The truth is that Boz, the engenderer of these facetiae, apart from his literary gift, was one of the most brilliant, capable young fellows of his generation. - "Bardell v. Pickwick", Percy Fitzgerald.
- Dr. Holmes's more pronouncedly comic verse does not differ specifically from the facetiae of Thomas Hood, but his prominent trait is wit, which is the laughter of the head as humor is of the heart. - "Brief History of English and American Literature", Henry A. Beers.
- Some there were, no doubt, who perceived the influence of Rabelais in the incessant digressions and the burlesque of philosophy; others, it may be, found a reminder of Burton in the parade of learning; and yet a few others, the scattered students of French facetiae of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, may have read the broad jests with a feeling that they had " seen something like it before." - "Sterne", H.D. Traill.