drolln.

Brit.

/drəʊl/, U.S.

/droʊl/

Forms: Also 1600s drolle, 1600s–1700s drol(e.

Etymology: < French drôle (1584 drolle in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter; in 16th cent. also draule), originally a noun ‘a good fellow, boone companion, merrie grig, pleasant wag; one that cares not which end goes forward, or how the world goes’ (Cotgrave); subsequently also an adjective, and so in English. The origin of the French word is uncertain: see Diez, Littré, Darmesteter.

1. A funny or waggish fellow; a merry-andrew, buffoon, jester, humorist.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon

sporter1531

Owlglassc1560

scogginist1593

scurr1596

hobby-horse1600

zany1606

buffoona1610

jack pudding?c1635

Owl-spieglea1637

droll1645

buffian1655

drollist1668

droller1676

merry-andrew1694

grotesque1864

harlequin1883

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xvii. 35 The old Duke of Main..was us'd to play the drol with him.

1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. ii. 4 Doctor Dale, who was a witty kind of Drole.

1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. ii. v. 74 Lucian is a droll and intends a jest.

1665 S. Pepys Diary 7 June (1972) VI. 119 Very merry we were, Sir Thomas Harvy being a very drolle.

c1672 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 201 John Lamphire..who was sometimes the natural droll of the company.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 102 The worst Drols of Punchinellos Were much th' ingeniouser Fellows.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 9. ⁋2 Mr. Scoggin, the famous Droll of the last Century.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 443 The frolic gamesome droll they have seen upon Covent garden theatre.

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. viii. 211 Mrs. Coningsby was..a fascinating droll.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 22 As for the droll there, he that plays the king And screws out smile with a Red night-cap on.

†2.

a. A comic or farcical composition or representation; a farce; an enacted piece of buffoonery; a puppet-show. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet-show

puppet play1565

puppet show1574

motion1589

drollerya1616

poppet-play1633

poppet-show1650

drolla1657

poppy-show1691

fantoccini1771

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia in Poems (1878) III. To Rdr. 128 The frequent heapes Of Braines, from the weake sun-shine of an Eye Work Maggotts out—short Drolls—scurrilitie.

1662 J. Tatham Aqua Triumphalis Introd. There are two Drolls, one of Watermen, the other of Seamen.

1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm 43 They are..the Subject of a choice Droll or Puppet-Shew at Bart'lemy-Fair.

1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 10 The crew, to divert themselves, acted several Drolls.

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Drollery..2. A show; the old word for the present drolls exhibited at fairs.

†b. The acting of farces. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > acting of farces

droll1817

1817 ‘D. Hughson’ Walks through London 194 A house of public exhibition in horsemanship and droll.

†3. The action of making jest or sport; jesting; burlesque writing or style. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry

playOE

gameOE

ragec1330

ribaldyc1330

triflinga1382

bourda1387

japeryc1386

jesting1526

jest1551

jollity1591

pleasantry1602

lepidity1647

drollery1653

droll1670

sport1671

pleasancy1684

funniment1822

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 13 The whole Sermon being but a drol and derision of Kings and their Ministers.

1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins Pref. To turn everything he writes of into Droll and Laughter.

1711 tr. S. Werenfels Disc. Logomachys 164 The ridiculous Mockery and Drolls of the Vulgar.

1842 H. Rogers Ess. I. i. 35 A pretty story..that affords scope for clinch and droll.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as †droll-booth, droll-house, a place where drolls were acted (obsolete); droll-teller.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre

little theatre1569

private house1604

private playhouse1609

amphitheatre1611

private theatre1633

droll-house1705

summer theatre1761

show shop1772

national theatre1816

minor1821

legitimate1826

patent house1827

patent theatre1836

showboat1839

music theatre1849

penny-gaff1856

saloon theatre1864

leg shop1871

people's theatre1873

nickelodeon1888

repertory theatre1891

studio theatre1891

legit1897

blood-tub1906

rep1906

small-timer1910

grind house1923

theatrette1927

indie1928

vaude1933

straw hat1935

theatre-in-the-round1948

straw-hatter1949

bughouse1952

theatre-restaurant1958

dinner theatre1959

theatre club1961

black box1971

pub theatre1971

performance space1972

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet-theatre

droll-house1705

puppet theatre1726

1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. v. 12 Like Smith-field Droll-booth, built with Wood.

1738 I. Watts Holiness of Times iii, in Wks. (1812) III. 579 Should the senate-house..be used for a theatre or droll-house, or for idle puppet-shows.

1866 Sat. Rev. 11 Aug. 186/1 The droll-teller still went his rounds from hall to cottage.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

drolladj.

Etymology: < French drôle: see droll n.

1. Intentionally facetious, amusing, comical, funny. †droll painting, caricature; droll painter, caricaturist.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > humorous or jesting

bourdfula1425

pleasant1530

facete1600

joculary1605

merrya1616

jocundary1618

lepidc1619

droll1623

humorousa1652

drollerical1656

humoursome1656

drollish1674

ludicrous1687

humorific1819

jestful1831

humoristica1834

1623 King James VI & I in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. 45 I heartily thank thee for thy kind droll letter.

1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. ii. 51 Landschape-painting..being ever preferred to single portraits, to pieces of still-life, to droll figures.

1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 26 Daniel Boon, Of the same country, a droll painter.

1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. x. 202 The droll inventions of Hogarth.

1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. i. xii. 82 He was..a droll and joyous humourist.

1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxiii. 230 Everybody has a perception of what is droll and ludicrous.

2. Unintentionally amusing; queer, quaint, odd, strange, ‘funny’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > comical > unintentionally

comic1668

droll1753

1753 W. Melmoth tr. Cicero Lett. iv. ix. (R.) Imitating the droll figures those gallant youths exhibited.

1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 159 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 562 Wither'd beldams, auld and droll.

1822 W. Scott Let. in J. Raine Taylor's Mem. R. Surtees (1852) 164 I have built a droll sort of house here..a pretty, though somewhat fantastical residence.

a1876 G. Dawson Biogr. Lect. (1886) 94 Charles the Second certainly was the drollest idol ever nation set up.

Derivatives

ˈdrollity n. the quality of being droll; concrete a droll thing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness > that which is odd

drollity1639

oddness1713

oddity1739

odd1830

1639 W. Davenant Salmacida Spolia sig. C3 Fowre Grotesques or drolities.

ˈdrollness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun]

wantonnessc1405

absurdity1529

monstruousness1545

impertinency1573

ridiculousness1573

monstrousness1574

absurd1581

absurdness1582

incongruity1597

fancy1598

delirium1599

monstruosity1604

absurdum1606

foppishness1611

impertinence1616

nonsense1630

impertinentness1645

irrationality1647

monstrosity1651

nonsensicality1652

ridicule1668

ridicule1672

nonsensicalness1674

maggotry1706

preposterousness1727

zanyship1766

ridiculosity1773

drollness1823

stultification1832

nonsensity1834

farcicality1849

cockeyedness1858

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical > quality or condition of

comicalness?1691

comicality1718

vis comica1757

drollness1823

funniness1836

farcicality1849

funniosity1920

zaniness1960

1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc (1825) 10 Excited, as he said, by the drollness of the scene.

1885 Library Mag. (N.Y.) July 4 The ground-cuckoo is an embodiment of drollness and absurdity.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

drollv.

Forms: Also 1600s drol, 1600s–1700s drole.

Etymology: < obsolete French drôler ‘to play the wag’, etc. (Cotgrave), < drôle, noun.

1. intransitive. To make sport or fun; to jest, joke; to play the buffoon. Const. with, at, on, upon.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (intransitive)] > jest or joke

gameOE

jest1553

mow1559

cog1588

to break a jest1589

droll1654

joke1670

fool1673

crack a jest1721

crack a joke1753

pleasant1848

humorize1851

rot1896

kibitz1923

gag1942

1654 B. Whitelocke Jrnl. Swedish Ambassy (1772) I. 130 Whitelocke drolled with them.

1665 Earl of Marlborough Fair Warnings 19 There was no greater argument of a foolish and inconsiderate person, than profanely to droll at Religion.

a1678 A. Marvell Wks. III. 333 (R.) As Killegrew buffons his master, they droll on their God, but a much duller way.

1680 Vindic. Conforming Clergy (ed. 2) 32 An Author..that drolls with every thing.

1739 W. Melmoth Fitzosborne Lett. (1763) 227 To drole upon the established religion of a country.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 369 He doubtless is in sport, and does but droll.

1894 R. Bridges Feast of Bacchus v. 1428 To droll on a private person.

2. transitive. To jest (a thing) away, off; †to jest (a person) out of or into something (obsolete); to bring forth after the manner of a jester or buffoon.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] > get rid of by banter

droll1663

rally1668

1663 R. Stapleton Slighted Maid i. 7 He would scarce droll away the Sum he offer'd.

1679 J. Sharp Serm. St. Margarets 11 Apr. 11 To Baffle and Droll out of Countenance those that stand up for the Reputation of Sacred things.

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxcii. 366 Men that will not be Reason'd into their Senses, and may yet be Laugh'd or Droll'd into them.

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 57 The Mulgraves and Masseys..might have drolled and drivelled forth their sickening imbecility for half a century.

Derivatives

† ˈdroller n. Obsolete a professed facetious person; a jester, buffoon.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon

sporter1531

Owlglassc1560

scogginist1593

scurr1596

hobby-horse1600

zany1606

buffoona1610

jack pudding?c1635

Owl-spieglea1637

droll1645

buffian1655

drollist1668

droller1676

merry-andrew1694

grotesque1864

harlequin1883

1676 J. Glanvill Seasonable Refl. i. 5 And..now he.. sets the Apes and Drollers upon it.

ˈdrolling n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > action of jesting

japingc1380

bourdingc1400

jesting1526

drolling1670

joking1670

funning1728

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > humorous or jesting > that jests or jokes

japinga1513

jesting1551

bourding1552

drolling1670

joking1714

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 19 [They] use but drolling and impertinence in their Arguments.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 369 Their drolling Lampons, & scurrilous Papers.

a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1765) 284 Something like an Epitaph, in a drolling Stile.

1847 W. Irving 14 Apr. in Life & Lett. IV. 3 A quiet drolling vein.

1882 A. Trollope Alice Dugdale, etc. 357 There was a sound of drolling in her voice.

ˈdrollingly adv. jestingly, so as to make a jest of it.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adverb] > in a jesting manner

merrilyc1395

japinglya1420

pleasantly1552

jestingly1569

facetiously1598

facetely1620

joculatorily1623

sportively1631

lepidly1653

jocularly1655

jocundarily1660

ludicrouslya1678

drollingly1684

jokingly1700

jocosely1725

humorously1752

drolly1791

jest-wise1844

side-splittingly1859

japishly1888

jokily1976

1684 J. Goodman Winter-evening Conf. i. 92 To talk lightly and drollingly of it.

† ˈdrollist n. Obsolete a professed facetious person; a jester, buffoon.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon

sporter1531

Owlglassc1560

scogginist1593

scurr1596

hobby-horse1600

zany1606

buffoona1610

jack pudding?c1635

Owl-spieglea1637

droll1645

buffian1655

drollist1668

droller1676

merry-andrew1694

grotesque1864

harlequin1883

1668 J. Glanvill Blow at Mod. Sadducism 150 These idle Drollists have an utter antipathy to all the braver and more generous kinds of Knowledge.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

n.1645

adj.1623

v.1654

单词	droll
释义	drolln. Brit. /drəʊl/, U.S. /droʊl/ Forms: Also 1600s drolle, 1600s–1700s drol(e. Etymology: < French drôle (1584 drolle in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter; in 16th cent. also draule), originally a noun ‘a good fellow, boone companion, merrie grig, pleasant wag; one that cares not which end goes forward, or how the world goes’ (Cotgrave); subsequently also an adjective, and so in English. The origin of the French word is uncertain: see Diez, Littré, Darmesteter. 1. A funny or waggish fellow; a merry-andrew, buffoon, jester, humorist. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon sporter1531 Owlglassc1560 scogginist1593 scurr1596 hobby-horse1600 zany1606 buffoona1610 jack pudding?c1635 Owl-spieglea1637 droll1645 buffian1655 drollist1668 droller1676 merry-andrew1694 grotesque1864 harlequin1883 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xvii. 35 The old Duke of Main..was us'd to play the drol with him. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. ii. 4 Doctor Dale, who was a witty kind of Drole. 1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. ii. v. 74 Lucian is a droll and intends a jest. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 7 June (1972) VI. 119 Very merry we were, Sir Thomas Harvy being a very drolle. c1672 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 201 John Lamphire..who was sometimes the natural droll of the company. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 102 The worst Drols of Punchinellos Were much th' ingeniouser Fellows. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 9. ⁋2 Mr. Scoggin, the famous Droll of the last Century. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 443 The frolic gamesome droll they have seen upon Covent garden theatre. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. viii. 211 Mrs. Coningsby was..a fascinating droll. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 22 As for the droll there, he that plays the king And screws out smile with a Red night-cap on. †2. a. A comic or farcical composition or representation; a farce; an enacted piece of buffoonery; a puppet-show. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet-show puppet play1565 puppet show1574 motion1589 drollerya1616 poppet-play1633 poppet-show1650 drolla1657 poppy-show1691 fantoccini1771 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia in Poems (1878) III. To Rdr. 128 The frequent heapes Of Braines, from the weake sun-shine of an Eye Work Maggotts out—short Drolls—scurrilitie. 1662 J. Tatham Aqua Triumphalis Introd. There are two Drolls, one of Watermen, the other of Seamen. 1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm 43 They are..the Subject of a choice Droll or Puppet-Shew at Bart'lemy-Fair. 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 10 The crew, to divert themselves, acted several Drolls. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Drollery..2. A show; the old word for the present drolls exhibited at fairs. †b. The acting of farces. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > acting of farces droll1817 1817 ‘D. Hughson’ Walks through London 194 A house of public exhibition in horsemanship and droll. †3. The action of making jest or sport; jesting; burlesque writing or style. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry playOE gameOE ragec1330 ribaldyc1330 triflinga1382 bourda1387 japeryc1386 jesting1526 jest1551 jollity1591 pleasantry1602 lepidity1647 drollery1653 droll1670 sport1671 pleasancy1684 funniment1822 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 13 The whole Sermon being but a drol and derision of Kings and their Ministers. 1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins Pref. To turn everything he writes of into Droll and Laughter. 1711 tr. S. Werenfels Disc. Logomachys 164 The ridiculous Mockery and Drolls of the Vulgar. 1842 H. Rogers Ess. I. i. 35 A pretty story..that affords scope for clinch and droll. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as †droll-booth, droll-house, a place where drolls were acted (obsolete); droll-teller. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre little theatre1569 private house1604 private playhouse1609 amphitheatre1611 private theatre1633 droll-house1705 summer theatre1761 show shop1772 national theatre1816 minor1821 legitimate1826 patent house1827 patent theatre1836 showboat1839 music theatre1849 penny-gaff1856 saloon theatre1864 leg shop1871 people's theatre1873 nickelodeon1888 repertory theatre1891 studio theatre1891 legit1897 blood-tub1906 rep1906 small-timer1910 grind house1923 theatrette1927 indie1928 vaude1933 straw hat1935 theatre-in-the-round1948 straw-hatter1949 bughouse1952 theatre-restaurant1958 dinner theatre1959 theatre club1961 black box1971 pub theatre1971 performance space1972 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet-theatre droll-house1705 puppet theatre1726 1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. v. 12 Like Smith-field Droll-booth, built with Wood. 1738 I. Watts Holiness of Times iii, in Wks. (1812) III. 579 Should the senate-house..be used for a theatre or droll-house, or for idle puppet-shows. 1866 Sat. Rev. 11 Aug. 186/1 The droll-teller still went his rounds from hall to cottage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). drolladj. Etymology: < French drôle: see droll n. 1. Intentionally facetious, amusing, comical, funny. †droll painting, caricature; droll painter, caricaturist. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > humorous or jesting bourdfula1425 pleasant1530 facete1600 joculary1605 merrya1616 jocundary1618 lepidc1619 droll1623 humorousa1652 drollerical1656 humoursome1656 drollish1674 ludicrous1687 humorific1819 jestful1831 humoristica1834 1623 King James VI & I in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. 45 I heartily thank thee for thy kind droll letter. 1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. ii. 51 Landschape-painting..being ever preferred to single portraits, to pieces of still-life, to droll figures. 1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 26 Daniel Boon, Of the same country, a droll painter. 1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. x. 202 The droll inventions of Hogarth. 1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. i. xii. 82 He was..a droll and joyous humourist. 1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxiii. 230 Everybody has a perception of what is droll and ludicrous. 2. Unintentionally amusing; queer, quaint, odd, strange, ‘funny’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > comical > unintentionally comic1668 droll1753 1753 W. Melmoth tr. Cicero Lett. iv. ix. (R.) Imitating the droll figures those gallant youths exhibited. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 159 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 562 Wither'd beldams, auld and droll. 1822 W. Scott Let. in J. Raine Taylor's Mem. R. Surtees (1852) 164 I have built a droll sort of house here..a pretty, though somewhat fantastical residence. a1876 G. Dawson Biogr. Lect. (1886) 94 Charles the Second certainly was the drollest idol ever nation set up. Derivatives ˈdrollity n. the quality of being droll; concrete a droll thing. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness > that which is odd drollity1639 oddness1713 oddity1739 odd1830 1639 W. Davenant Salmacida Spolia sig. C3 Fowre Grotesques or drolities. ˈdrollness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] wantonnessc1405 absurdity1529 monstruousness1545 impertinency1573 ridiculousness1573 monstrousness1574 absurd1581 absurdness1582 incongruity1597 fancy1598 delirium1599 monstruosity1604 absurdum1606 foppishness1611 impertinence1616 nonsense1630 impertinentness1645 irrationality1647 monstrosity1651 nonsensicality1652 ridicule1668 ridicule1672 nonsensicalness1674 maggotry1706 preposterousness1727 zanyship1766 ridiculosity1773 drollness1823 stultification1832 nonsensity1834 farcicality1849 cockeyedness1858 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical > quality or condition of comicalness?1691 comicality1718 vis comica1757 drollness1823 funniness1836 farcicality1849 funniosity1920 zaniness1960 1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc (1825) 10 Excited, as he said, by the drollness of the scene. 1885 Library Mag. (N.Y.) July 4 The ground-cuckoo is an embodiment of drollness and absurdity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). drollv. Forms: Also 1600s drol, 1600s–1700s drole. Etymology: < obsolete French drôler ‘to play the wag’, etc. (Cotgrave), < drôle, noun. 1. intransitive. To make sport or fun; to jest, joke; to play the buffoon. Const. with, at, on, upon. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (intransitive)] > jest or joke gameOE jest1553 mow1559 cog1588 to break a jest1589 droll1654 joke1670 fool1673 crack a jest1721 crack a joke1753 pleasant1848 humorize1851 rot1896 kibitz1923 gag1942 1654 B. Whitelocke Jrnl. Swedish Ambassy (1772) I. 130 Whitelocke drolled with them. 1665 Earl of Marlborough Fair Warnings 19 There was no greater argument of a foolish and inconsiderate person, than profanely to droll at Religion. a1678 A. Marvell Wks. III. 333 (R.) As Killegrew buffons his master, they droll on their God, but a much duller way. 1680 Vindic. Conforming Clergy (ed. 2) 32 An Author..that drolls with every thing. 1739 W. Melmoth Fitzosborne Lett. (1763) 227 To drole upon the established religion of a country. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 369 He doubtless is in sport, and does but droll. 1894 R. Bridges Feast of Bacchus v. 1428 To droll on a private person. 2. transitive. To jest (a thing) away, off; †to jest (a person) out of or into something (obsolete); to bring forth after the manner of a jester or buffoon. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] > get rid of by banter droll1663 rally1668 1663 R. Stapleton Slighted Maid i. 7 He would scarce droll away the Sum he offer'd. 1679 J. Sharp Serm. St. Margarets 11 Apr. 11 To Baffle and Droll out of Countenance those that stand up for the Reputation of Sacred things. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxcii. 366 Men that will not be Reason'd into their Senses, and may yet be Laugh'd or Droll'd into them. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 57 The Mulgraves and Masseys..might have drolled and drivelled forth their sickening imbecility for half a century. Derivatives † ˈdroller n. Obsolete a professed facetious person; a jester, buffoon. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon sporter1531 Owlglassc1560 scogginist1593 scurr1596 hobby-horse1600 zany1606 buffoona1610 jack pudding?c1635 Owl-spieglea1637 droll1645 buffian1655 drollist1668 droller1676 merry-andrew1694 grotesque1864 harlequin1883 1676 J. Glanvill Seasonable Refl. i. 5 And..now he.. sets the Apes and Drollers upon it. ˈdrolling n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > action of jesting japingc1380 bourdingc1400 jesting1526 drolling1670 joking1670 funning1728 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > humorous or jesting > that jests or jokes japinga1513 jesting1551 bourding1552 drolling1670 joking1714 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 19 [They] use but drolling and impertinence in their Arguments. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 369 Their drolling Lampons, & scurrilous Papers. a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1765) 284 Something like an Epitaph, in a drolling Stile. 1847 W. Irving 14 Apr. in Life & Lett. IV. 3 A quiet drolling vein. 1882 A. Trollope Alice Dugdale, etc. 357 There was a sound of drolling in her voice. ˈdrollingly adv. jestingly, so as to make a jest of it. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adverb] > in a jesting manner merrilyc1395 japinglya1420 pleasantly1552 jestingly1569 facetiously1598 facetely1620 joculatorily1623 sportively1631 lepidly1653 jocularly1655 jocundarily1660 ludicrouslya1678 drollingly1684 jokingly1700 jocosely1725 humorously1752 drolly1791 jest-wise1844 side-splittingly1859 japishly1888 jokily1976 1684 J. Goodman Winter-evening Conf. i. 92 To talk lightly and drollingly of it. † ˈdrollist n. Obsolete a professed facetious person; a jester, buffoon. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon sporter1531 Owlglassc1560 scogginist1593 scurr1596 hobby-horse1600 zany1606 buffoona1610 jack pudding?c1635 Owl-spieglea1637 droll1645 buffian1655 drollist1668 droller1676 merry-andrew1694 grotesque1864 harlequin1883 1668 J. Glanvill Blow at Mod. Sadducism 150 These idle Drollists have an utter antipathy to all the braver and more generous kinds of Knowledge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1645adj.1623v.1654
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