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droll

Pronunciation: /dɹəʊl/

The English word “droll” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

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

noun

  1. A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.
  2. The ghost of a child, especially one who died a painful death.

verb

  1. To jest, to joke.

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

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