Difference between Drollery and Clowning

What is the difference between Drollery and Clowning?

Drollery as a noun is comical quality. while Clowning as a verb is to act in a silly or playful fashion.

Drollery

Part of speech: noun

Definition: comical quality. amusing behaviour. something humorous, funny or comical. a puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature. a joke; a funny story.

Clowning

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To act in a silly or playful fashion.

Example sentence: The tour bus is always fun, and there's plenty of time to watch movies. Actually, Kanye introduced me to the movie 'Step Brothers.' We were sitting there, watching it and clowning around - it was so funny, man.

We hope you now know whether to use Drollery or Clowning in your sentence.

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