| 单词 | droll |
| 释义 | droll (once / 1373 pages) adj Need a mental picture for the word droll? Think of one of those cute-homely troll dolls — blend those two words together — "doll" and "troll" — and you get droll, a description of a figure that is adorably strange and whimsically cute. The word droll comes from the archaic French word drolle, referring to a jolly good fellow. The French word comes perhaps from the Middle Dutch drolle, or "imp." The word came into English as both noun ("funny person, buffoon") and adjective ("funny, quaint, strange") in the 17th century. WORD FAMILYdroll: droller, drollery, drollest+/drollery: drolleries USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s a droll gem worth catching up on, because Season 2 is finally arriving in mid-January. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Is Gilbert and Sullivan’s enduringly popular “The Mikado” a droll satire of Victorian England? New York Times(Dec 25, 2016) Primarily, and almost first in her class, she was famous for being famous—the living embodiment and droll parody of American celebrity. Time(Dec 18, 2016) adj comical in an odd or whimsical manner a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor Syn humorous, humourous full of or characterized by humor |
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