drolle

Afrikaans

Noun

drolle

  1. plural of drol

French

Adjective

drolle (plural drolles)

  1. archaic spelling of drôle

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French drolle, from Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą.[1]

Adjective

drolle m or f (plural drolles)

  1. funny; amusing

Noun

drolle m (plural drolles)

  1. joker (one who makes lots of jokes)

References

  1. ^ “droll”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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