droll

Meanings

Adjective

• Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.

Noun

• A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.

Verb

• To jest, to joke.

Origin

• From French drôle, from drôle from Middle French drolle from Old French drolle, from Middle Dutch drol from Old Norse troll (compare Middle High German trolle), from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from *truzlaną. troll.