1) Amusing 2) Amusing in an odd way 3) Amusingly odd 4) Amusingly quirky 5) Amusingly unusual 6) Comical 7) Dryly amusing 8) Dryly comical 9) Dryly funny 10) Dryly humorous 11) Dryly witty 12) Facetious 13) French word used in English 14) Funny, quaint 15) Humorous 16) Humorously odd 17) Like a wag
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1) Amusing 2) Comic 3) Comical 4) Funny 5) Humorous 6) Humourous 7) Jesting 8) Risible 9) Wry
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A droll is a short comical sketch of a type that originated during the Puritan Interregnum in England. With the closure of the theatres, actors were left without any way of plying their art. Borrowing scenes from well-known plays of the Elizabethan theatre, they added dancing and other entertainments and performed these, sometimes illegally, to ma...
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• (superl.) Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. • (n.) Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like. • (v. i.) To jest; to play the buffoon. • (v. t.) To make a jest of; to set in a comical light. • (n.) One whose practice it is to raise mirth...
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short comic scene or farce adapted from an existing play or created by actors, performed in England during the period of the Civil Wars and the ...
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Droll adjective [
Compar. Droller ;
superl. Drollest .] [ French
drôle ; confer G. & Dutch
drollig , LG.
drullig , Dutch
drol a thick and short person, a droll, Swedish
troll a magical appearance, demo...
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Droll intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Drolled ;
present participle & verbal noun Drolling .] To jest; to play the buffoon. [ R.]
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Droll noun 1. One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.
Prior. 2. Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.
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Droll transitive verb 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.] �...
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[
adj] - comical in an odd or whimsical manner
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adjective comical in an odd or whimsical manner; `a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor`
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