Adjective : Fielding and Sterne are waggish writers. ,waggish humor.    From Dictionary.com. 

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference

If he didn't wag it off, he certainly absorbed its waggishness as a distinguishing characteristic of the "coming man" -- the future Artemas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference

About midnight a Sultan el Bahr or Sea-king — a species of whale — appeared close to our counter; and as these animals are infamous for upsetting vessels in waggishness, the sight elicited a yell of terror and a chorus of religious exclamations.    From Wordnik.com.  [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference

We fear that Walt's waggishness was rather heavily shod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned] Reference

He breathed a sigh of relief and recovered his waggishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Convert] Reference

Beethoven's waggishness was frequently vented on a young friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beethoven A Character Study]

I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference

Truly they were ahungered, but could never quite lose their waggishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3)] Reference

Mr. Chalk laughed and shook his head as at a choice piece of waggishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dialstone Lane, Part 1.] Reference

Mr. Tenby made it his business to push his clamorous waggishness for the exhibition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference

So deplorable is the waggishness of a person, however gifted, who has no sense of humour!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gossip in a Library] Reference

His self-possession had quickly come back to him and his waggishness could not be repressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters] Reference

Fretfully are cheaply a few that can be brickly as maul waggishness, and we bridgehead the compositor of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

"Yes, sir," and he shook his head and chuckled in delighted remembrance of his waggishness, "that was jest about the cheekiest joke I ever played on a bear!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories] Reference

There was Jem, full of life and waggishness, and bright for any exercise of his wits; and grave shadows used to come over his changeable face often enough too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daisy] Reference

Agent 007 faces a succession of unspeakable dangers and obliging women with the absurdly overstated, indefatigable waggishness that has outlived all imitations.    From Wordnik.com.  [MI6 :: 007 News] Reference

Bertha meanwhile, to whom waggishness was existence, was carrying on a silent drama on her plate, her roll being a quarry, and her knife the workmen attacking it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference

There was a saucy waggishness in his gestures, of which the effect was heightened by the fox-like expression of his countenance, and the superlatively vagabond freedom of his manners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference

"William," said the Squire with a small dash of waggishness in his tone and countenance which Bill seemed to think very ill-timed; "was it a smooth-barked tree, or a rough-barked tree?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck] Reference

Evidently Mr. Buchanan, while appreciating the motive and feelings of these gentlemen, manifested a little characteristic waggishness about their going to rest and getting up refreshed for their duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference

Poets and dreamers have sometimes snared him in a sonnet, but for the most part, for his waggishness and his wanderings, he demands, not the strait-jacketing of poetry, but the flexible garment of prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference

A sardonic waggishness is there, and sometimes even a wistful sort of merriment, but joy in the real sense -- a kicking up of legs, a light-heartedness, a complete freedom from care -- is not to be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damn! A Book of Calumny] Reference

Then in came Mrs. Hastings, a very literal interfering goddess, and her bonnet was frightfully awry so that the parrot upon it looked shockingly coquettish and irreverent and lent to her dignity a flavour of ill-timed waggishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance Island] Reference

My invisible companion was singing also, and seemed at times to be chuckling softly to himself, doubtless at thought of the strange new lessons he was teaching me; perhaps, too, at a special bit of waggishness he had still in store.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Age] Reference

About midnight a Sultan el Bahr or Sea-king -- a species of whale -- appeared close to our counter; and as these animals are infamous for upsetting vessels in waggishness, the sight elicited a yell of terror and a chorus of religious exclamations.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference

Ten to one it was yon Mr. Grieve, the minister of West Braeburn, who fairly blew in your face with waggishness when you offered him a chair in the waiting-room, and tee-heed that "a lawyer's office must be a dull place for a young leddy like you!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Judge] Reference

A letter written then to another classmate, recalling some waggishness of our own sophomore days, he used the phrase "Like Ruth among the alien corn.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned] Reference

Like an engine that knocks when you take your foot off the pedal, Furst’s prose cannot slow down without lapsing into this sort of waggishness and bad taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man of Action] Reference

But for a grave waggishness in Mr Rugg’s manner of delivering this introduction to the feast, it might have appeared that Miss Dorrit was expected to be one of the company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

For mad debauch and waggishness renowned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Mayhap I have been misled by some waggishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mince Pie] Reference