droll
droll · drolls · drolled · drolling
To jest, to jokeTo jest, to joke.
UK/dɹəʊl/US/dɹoʊl/
Meaning
1 senses(archaic)To jest, to joke.
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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Forms
drolls, drolling, drolled, drolledWord family
1 related wordsDeriveddrollingly
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.