Drolls

droll (dr

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

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Adj.

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

adjective amusing, odd, funny, entertaining, comic, ridiculous, diverting, eccentric, ludicrous, humorous, quaint, off-the-wall (slang), laughable, farcical, whimsical, comical, oddball (informal), risible, jocular, clownish, waggish The band have a droll sense of humour.

Translations

droll [drəʊl] ADJ → gracioso, divertido

droll [ˈdrəʊl] adj → drôle

droll

adj, drolly

adv → komisch, amüsant

droll [drəʊl] adj (old) (humour) → ameno/a; (expression) → buffo/a, strambo/a

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amusing Aria buffa Buffa buffoon comical Droller drollery Drollingly Drollish Drollist farcical humorous jocose jocular joculatory jokey laughable Nash Nashe	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. Brilliant Russians, and Stubbly Spaniards by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk 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. The folly of racism: enslaving blackface and the "natural" fool ... by Hornback, Robert / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England As the American master of the drolls, Garrison Keiler, wrote in The Book of Guys: ``Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome. Valerie Hill: Why lower ourselves to men's superiority ? by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)	Drobny Drock Drofland Drogheda Drogher Drogman drogue drogue chute drogue parachute Droh droid Droil droit Droit d'aubaine droit de suite droit du seigneur Droits of the Admiralty Droitural Droitzschka droll Droller drollery Drollingly Drollish Drollist Drolls Dromaeognathous dromaeosaur Dromaeosauridae Dromaius Dromaius novaehollandiae Dromatherium Drome Drôme dromedary dromomania dromond dromophobia dronabinol drone Drone bee Drone fly drone on drone out drone pipe Dronepipe drongo droning Dronish Dronkelewe Dronkship	Droits, Libertés, Actions Juridiques Droitural Droitural Droitzschka Drokiia Drol Drôles de Jeux Drôles de Mecs droll Droll Tales Droll Yankees Seattle Rain Guard Droll Yankees Sunflower Domed Cage Bird Feeder Droll Yankees Yankee Flipper droller drolleries drollery drollest Drollingly Drollish Drollist drollness Drolls drolly DROLS DROLS Technical Report DROLS Work Unit DROLSTR DROLSWU Drom Droma Dromadidae Dromadidae Dromadol Dromaeognathous dromaeosaur Dromaeosaurid Dromaeosauridae Dromaeosaurids Dromaeosaurinae Dromaeosauroidea Dromaiidae Dromaius Dromaius novae-hollandiae Dromaius novaehollandiae Dromaius novaehollandiae Dromaius novaehollandiae Dromas Dromas Dromas ardeola Dromas ardeola Dromatherium

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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.

Brilliant Russians, and Stubbly Spaniards by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

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.

The folly of racism: enslaving blackface and the "natural" fool ... by Hornback, Robert / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

As the American master of the drolls, Garrison Keiler, wrote in The Book of Guys: ``Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

Valerie Hill: Why lower ourselves to men's superiority ? by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

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