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droll

UK/dɹəʊl/ US/dɹɒl/ uncommon archaic

adjective

1.

comical in an odd or whimsical manner

  • “a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor”
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Origin

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”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą. Doublet of drôle and troll.

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