droll

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French drôle (“comical, odd, funny”), from drôle (“buffoon”) from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French drolle (“a merry fellow, pleasant rascal”) from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French drolle (“one who lives luxuriously”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”) from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse troll (“giant, troll”) (compare Middle High German trolle (“clown”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *truzlą (“creature which walks clumsily”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *truzlaną (“to walk with short steps”). More at troll.

• Lua error in Module:parameters at line 494: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /dɹəʊl/
• Lua error in Module:parameters at line 494: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /dɹoʊl/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -əʊl

droll (comparative droller, superlative drollest)

1. Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.

• See also Thesaurus:witty

• drollery
• drolly
• drollness

droll (plural drolls)

1. (archaic) A buffoon.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.

droll (third-person singular simple present drolls, present participle drolling, simple past and past participle drolled)

1. (archaic) To joke, to jest.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

     "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?

• roll'd

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /trɔtl/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɔtl

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1. dawdling, loitering

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• drolla