droll
11droll — [adj] amusing, farcical absurd, camp, campy, clownish, comic, comical, crack up, diverting, eccentric, entertaining, for grins*, funny, gagged up*, gelastic, humorous, jocular, joshing, laffer, laughable, ludicrous, odd, preposterous, quaint,… …
12droll — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ amusing in a strange or quaint way. DERIVATIVES drollery noun drollness noun drolly adverb. ORIGIN French, perhaps from Dutch drolle imp, goblin …
13droll|er|y — «DROH luhr ee, DROHL ree», noun, plural er|ies. 1. something odd and amusing; a laughable trick. 2. quaint humor: »the rich drollery of “She Stoops to Conquer” (Macaulay). 3. a jesting; joking. 4. Obsolete. a comic play, farce, or puppet show …
14Droll — For the type of humor, see Droll humor. For video game, see Drol. For the musician, see Gibb Droll. Frontispiece to The Wits or Sport upon Sport (London, 1662). Attributed to Francis Kirkman. A droll is a short comical sketch of a type that… …
15droll — [[t]droʊl[/t]] adj. droll•er, droll•est, n. 1) amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish 2) a droll person; jester; wag • Etymology: 1615–25; < MF drolle pleasant rascal < MD drol a fat little man droll′ness, n. drol′ly, adv. syn …
16droll — drollness, n. drolly, adv. /drohl/, adj., droller, drollest, n., v. adj. 1. amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish. n. 2. a droll person; jester; wag. v.i. 3. Archaic. to jest; joke. [1615 25; < MF drolle pleasant rascal < MD drol …
17droll — [[t]dro͟ʊl[/t]] ADJ GRADED Something or someone that is droll is amusing or witty, sometimes in an unexpected way. [WRITTEN] The band have a droll sense of humour …
18droll — UK [drəʊl] / US [droʊl] adjective Word forms droll : adjective droll comparative droller superlative drollest funny in an unusual way …
19droll — I. adjective Etymology: French drôle, from drôle scamp, from Middle French drolle, from Middle Dutch, imp Date: 1623 having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality < his dignified presence decorated our droll little quarters Gwendolyn Brooks > •… …
20droll — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. comical, amusing. See amusement. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. funny, comical, laughable, whimsical; see funny 1 . See Synonym Study at funny . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a.… …
