Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Witty or humorous writings and sayings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Witty or humorous sayings or writings.
- In booksellers' or collectors' catalogues, books of an objectionable kind, broad, coarsely witty, or indecent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare
Witty or amusing writings or remarks.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Asperae facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere, acrem sui memoriam relinquunt, a bitter jest leaves
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Peace and meditation - Negotiation meetings, May 1968 - Anecdotes, facetiae, satires, etc.
Archive 2006-03-01 ricklibrarian 2006
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Peace and meditation - Negotiation meetings, May 1968 - Anecdotes, facetiae, satires, etc.
Vietnam: One Week's Dead, May 28 - June 3, 1969 ricklibrarian 2006
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“The New Yorker, the weekly magazine that started as “a hectic book of gossip, cartoons and facetiae,” as Louis Menand once wrote, and has evolved into a citadel of narrative nonfiction and investigative reporting, will publish its entire 80-year archives on searchable computer discs this fall.”
New Web Site, National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) « ResourceShelf 2005
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Mr Moffat, grieved in his soul, was becoming inextricably bewildered by such facetiae as these, when an egg — and it may be feared not a fresh egg — flung with unerring precision, struck him on the open part of his well-plaited shirt, and reduced him to speechless despair.
Doctor Thorne 2004
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I in vain for a time expected the bad-masti (as the Persians call it,) the horse play, and the gross facetiae, which generally accompany southern and eastern tipsiness.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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"_Ally -- ally_," answered Brammel with a knowing leer, attempting a little _facetiae_ in French.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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Verum ingenium ejus haud absurdum; posse versus facere, jocum movere, sermone uti vel modesto vel molli vel procaci; prorsus multae facetiae multusque lepos inerat.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Booksellers who deal in such wares often put them in catalogues under the head of _facetiae_, thus making a vile use of what should be characteristic only of books of wit or humor.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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I shall be able to cast a superior eye over it and then shatter it with a few facetiae.
Death in Ecstasy Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1936
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