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droll  (drl)
adj. droll·er, droll·est
Amusingly odd or whimsically comical.
n. Archaic
A buffoon.

[French drôle, buffoon, droll, from Old French drolle, bon vivant, possibly from Middle Dutch drol, goblin.]

drollness n.
drolly adv.

droll [drəʊl]
adj
amusing in a quaint or odd manner; comical
[from French drôle scamp, from Middle Dutch: imp]
drollness  n
drolly  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.droll - comical in an odd or whimsical manner; "a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor"
humorous, humourous - full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein"

droll
Translations
droll [drəʊl] ADJgracioso, divertido
droll [ˈdrəʊl] adjdrôle
droll
adj, drolly
advkomisch, amüsant
droll [drəʊl] adj (old) (humour) → ameno/a; (expression) → buffo/a, strambo/a


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RUSSIAN DROLLS If the communists had wanted to hang on to power in Russia for a bit longer they really should have stopped their scientists from sending dogs into space and made them concentrate on developing a race of Andrei Arshavin clones.
The Swabber farce was also subsequently reproduced word for word as The Humour of John Swabber in Francis Kirkman's famous collection of popular farcical drolls, The Wits, or, Sport, being a Curious Collection of Several Drols and Farces (1673), a work that seems likely to have made its way to British North America thereafter.
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