droll
droll · drolls
The ghost of a child, especially one who died a painful deathThe ghost of a child, especially one who died a painful death.
UK/dɹəʊl/US/dɹoʊl/
Meaning
2 sensesThe ghost of a child, especially one who died a painful death.
(archaic)A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.
Origin
From French drôle (“comical, odd, funny”), from drôle (“buffoon”) from Middle French drollFrom 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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