droll

Etymology

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”) from Old Norse troll (“giant, troll”) (compare Middle High German trolle (“clown”)), from Proto-Germanic *truzlą (“creature which walks clumsily”), from *truzlaną (“to walk with short steps”). Doublet of drôle and troll.

adj

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

noun

  1. (archaic) A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.

verb

  1. (archaic) To jest, to joke.

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