Droll

Definition: Droll

Droll

Adjective

1. Comical in an odd or whimsical manner; "a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "droll" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonyms: Droll

Ridiculousness

Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly).

Crosswords: Droll

Scottish (an animal's tail).

Books

• Charlie the Mole and Other Droll Souls (reference)

• Don Martin's Droll Book (reference)

• Droll Stories - Volume I [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

• Droll Stories (2 Volumes in 1) (reference)

• DROLL STORIES LT (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

What has happened is droll beyond imagining. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Marius and his Mary, or his Maria, or his Marietta, or his Marion, they must make droll lovers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "droll": droll waggish. Additional references.

Albanian

komik (comic, comical, funny), karagjozllëk (buffoonery), karagjoz (cutup, jester, laughing stock, zany), bufon (buffoon, jester, merry andrew, stooge, zany), bëj shakara, bëj karagjozllëqe. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضحك (buffoon, burlesque, clown, comedian, comic, comical, comics, farcical, foolish, funny, harlequin, humorous, jester, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, merry andrew, ridiculous, risible, silly, wag), ‏المهرج (buffoon, harlequin, pierrot, wag, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смешен човек, правя се на палячо. (various references)

Chinese 

滑稽可笑. (various references)

Czech

komický (amusing, comic, comical, funny, grotesque, humorous, quaint). (various references)

Farsi 

مسخره امیز (Burlesque, Ridiculous), مضحک (Absurd, Burlesque, Comic, Grotesque, Hilarious, Laughable, Ludicrous, Preposterous, Ridiculous), لودگی کردن , خنده اور (Howler, Humorous, Ludicrous, Risible). (various references)

Finnish

lystikäs (amusing, funny, jolly), hullunkurinen (absurd, bizarre, comical, extremely funny, ludicrous), hassunkurinen (comical, funny, ludicrous). (various references)

French

drôle, comique, bizarre. (various references)

German

drollig (comic, comical, cunning, funny, jocose, odd, quaint, quizzical, strange), lustig (amusing, blithe, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, frolicsome, funny, gay, happy, hilarious, humorous, jocular, jocularly, jocund, jocundly, jolly, jovial, lazy, merry, pert, sportive). (various references)

Greek 

αστείοσ (comical, funny, humorous, jesting, jocose, jocular, ludicrous, quizzical, tickler). (various references)

Hebrew 

מצחיק (amusing, comic, comical, funny, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), ליצן (buffoon, clown, fool, harlequin, jack-pudding, jester, scoffer, wag, zany), לץ (jester, joker, playful). (various references)

Hungarian

tréfa (freak, fun, gag, game, hoax, jape, jeer, jest, jocularity, joke, lark, mischief, monkeyshine, skylarking, sport, spree, story, waggery), bohókás (facetious, waggish), bohóc (buffoon, clown, funny man, funnyman, harlequin, merry andrew, pierrot, zany). (various references)

Indonesian

jenaka (arch, comic, funny, jocose, quizzical). (various references)

Italian

divertente (amusing, enjoyable, entertaining, funny, hilarious, humorous), buffone (buffoon, clown, fool, jester, joker, zany), buffo (buffo, comic, comical, funny, laughable, puff, zany). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

剽軽 (facetious, funny). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひょうき�" (facetious, funny). (various references)

Manx

gamshoge (buffoon, jester, joker), gamshogagh, aitt (curiosity, funny, quaint). (various references)

Norwegian

pussig (funny). (various references)

Pig Latin

olldray

Portuguese

divertido (amused, amusing, canty, diverting, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, funny, gamy, gay, hilarious, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportful, sportive, waggish), gracejar (banter, fib, frolic, fun, jape, jest, joke, josh, kid, lark, tease, trifle), gracejador (fibber, jester, jesting, jocular, joker, jollier, playful, wag), engraçado (amusing, comic, comical, funny, jocose, lively, screaming, screamy, witty), curioso (agog, amateur, curious, fancier, inquiring, inquisitive, novel, odd, strange), bobo (buffoon, clown, fool, goof, gull, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, jerk, jester, lout, merry andrew, ninny, ninny-hammer, pantaloon, scaramouch, silly, stupid, zany). (various references)

Romanian

nostim (amusing, attractive, funny, good, pert), nãzdrãvan (fairy, funny, peerless, rogue, supernatural, wonder-working), hazliu (amusing, comic, entertaining, funny, gamesome, humorous, laughable, waggish), comic (clownish, comic, comical, comically, funny, humorous, jocular, ludicrous, ludicrously, screaming), ciudat (cranky, curious, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, freakish, funny, intriguing, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), bizar (bizarre, extravagant, fancy, quaint, queer, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, whimsical), amuzant (amusing, as good as a play, diverting, entertaining, funny, jocular, laughable, light, quaint). (various references)

Russian 

шутить (jape, jest, joke, joked, joking, josh, kidding, trifle), шут (buffoon, clown, fool, harlequin, jester, man of motley, merry andrew, mountebank, tomfool, zany). (various references)

Scottish

neònach (amusing, eccentric, odd, surprising, unusual). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dvorska budala (jester), zabavan (amusing, comical, diverting, entertaining, recreative, sportful, sportive), smešan (amusing, comical, funny, hilarious, laughable, ludicrous, rich, ridicule, ridiculous), šaljivdžija (funnyman), šaliti se (fool, fool around, jest, joke, kid, lark, monkey, niggle, trifle). (various references)

Spanish

divertido (amused, amusing, comic, comical, distrait, diverting, enchanting, enjoyable, entertaining, funny, jolly, merry), ser una cosa rara, raro (curious, Dandy, definite, dignified, dingy, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, few and far between, frothy, funny, ichneumon, infrequent, lead, odd, oddball, oddish, odds-on, outlandishness, peculiar, queerish, quirky, rare, rum, scarce, singular, strange, uncanny, unusual, vintage, weird), gracioso (affable, amusing, catching, facetious, friendly, funny, good-natured, graceful, gracious, joker, kind), extraño (alien, bizarre, dago, eerie, extraneous, foreign, kinky, odd, oddish, out of the way, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, singular, strange, stranger, uncommon, weird), cosa rara (freak, oddity). (various references)

Swedish

rolig (amusing, buffo, entertaining, fun, funny, good, hilarious), lustig (amusing, comic, funny, hilarious, humorous, jocular, odd). (various references)

Turkish

tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), komik (amusing, burlesque, comedian, comic, comical, farcical, funny, funnyman, gilbertian, humorous, jesting, jocose, laugh, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, rum, rummy), garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), gülünç (amusing, burlesque, camp, comic, derisive, derisory, fantastic, fantastical, foolish, funny, gilbertian, grotesque, humorous, jesting, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, flaky, freak, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kinky, kooky, novel, odd, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, singular, some, splendiferous, strange, uncanny, unco, unusual, weird). (various references)

Ukrainian

смішний (amusing, boffo, capricious, comic, comical, funny, laughable, ludicrous, risible, zany), чудний (antic, bizarre, erratic, funny, odd, oddball, oddish, outlandish, singular, strange), фарс (farce, slapstick), комічний стиль, кепкувати (badinage, chaff, joke), висміювати (befool, caricature, deride, jape, make fun of, mock, quip, satirize), жартувати (badinage, banter, chaff, fun, gag, jape, jest, joke, jolly, lark, lark around, monkey, play, trifle, yak), жартівник (humorist, humourist, jester, joker). (various references)

Vietnamese 

như trò hề kỳ cục, người l� m trò khôi h� i, khôi h� i (buffi, buffo, burlesque, comical, humorous, jocose, priceless, ragtime), kỳ quặc (crotchety, maniac, oddly, quizzical, strangely, unaccountable), kỳ lạ (bizarre, marvellous, uncanny, walloping, wonderful), bu�"n cười (funny, jocular, ludicrous, quizzical, ridiculous). (various references)

Welsh

ysmala (amusing, arch, funny). (various references)

drol. (various references)

drole. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "droll": drolled, droller, drolleries, drollery, drollest, drolling, drollness, drollnesses, drolls, drolly. (additional references)

Words ending with "droll": beadroll, bedroll. (additional references)

Words containing "droll": beadrolls, bedrolls. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Droll" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aroll, broll, Dartoll, deol, Deolali, Dorell, Dorl, Dorli, drell, Drella, driol, droal, droall, drol, drole, drolls, drolo, drooly, drowl, druil, drul, Eddoll. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: doll, lord, roll.

-2 letters: dol, dor, old, rod.

-3 letters: do, lo, od, or.

+1 letter: dollar, drolls, drolly, lordly, rolled.

+2 letters: bedroll, bollard, collard, dollars, drolled, droller, pollard, redpoll, trolled, worldly.

+3 letters: arillode, arilloid, beadroll, bedrolls, bollards, bordello, carolled, collards, collared, collider, colluder, cordelle, doorbell, doorsill, dorsally, drollery, drollest, drolling, drumroll, enrolled, falderol, floridly, folderol, hollered, landlord, lordless, lordlier, lordlike, lordling, loudlier, modeller, pollards, redpolls, repolled, rerolled, roadkill, rondelle, rowelled, scrolled, slumlord, strolled, trollied, unrolled, welldoer, yodeller.