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Droll a. [Compar. Droller superl. Drollest ] Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.
Syn: -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical. Laughable is the generic term, denoting anything exciting laughter or worthy of laughter; comical denotes something of the kind exhibited in comedies, something humorous of the kind exhibited in comedies, something, as it were, dramatically humorous; droll stands lower on the scale, having reference to persons or things which excite laughter by their buffoonery or oddity. A laughable incident; a comical adventure; a droll story.
Droll, n.
1. One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.
2. Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.
Droll, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drolled p. pr. & vb. n. Drolling.] To jest; to play the buffoon. [R.]
Droll, v. t.
1. To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.
Men that will not be reasoned into their senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them. --L'Estrange.
2. To make a jest of; to set in a comical light. [R.]
This drolling everything is rather fatiguing. -- W. D. Howells.
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droll
adj : comical in an odd or whimsical manner; "a droll little man
with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor"