Droll
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droll¹
- /dɹəʊl/ UK
- /dɹɒl/
- /dɹoʊl/ US
- [dɹoːɫ] Canada
Rhymes with -əʊl
Where it comes from
From French drôle (“comical, odd, funny”), from drôle (“buffoon”) from Middle French drolle (“a merry fellow, pleasant rascal”) from Old French drolle (“one who lives luxuriously”), from Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą. Doublet of drôle and troll.
adjective droller · drollest
- Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish. Very droll, minister.
noun drolls
- A funny person; a buffoon, a wag. The lieutenant was a droll in his way, Peregrine possessed a great fund of sprightliness and good humour, and Godfrey, among his other qualifications already recited, sung a most excellent song […].
verb drolls · drolling · drolled
- To jest, to joke. "Eh, man," said I, drolling with him a little, "you're very ingenious! But would it not be simpler for you to write him a few words in black and white?" / "And that is an excellent observe, Mr. Balfour of Shaws," says Alan, drolling with me; [...]
droll²
noun drolls
- The ghost of a child, especially one who died a painful death. HAMILTON’S HILL, 0.4 m., a little elevation, was the starting point for the races, and is known for a wide variety of ghosts including such fearsome creatures as a 10-foot cat that explodes before the beholder’s eyes, plat-eyes in the guise of three-legged hogs and two-headed cows, boo-daddies, boo-
Droll³
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Droll.
proper noun Drolls
- A surname from German.
