drolle
Afrikaans
editNoun
editdrolle
French
editAdjective
editdrolle (plural drolles)
Middle French
editEtymology
editFrom Old French drolle, from Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą.[1]
Adjective
editdrolle m or f (plural drolles)
Noun
editdrolle m (plural drolles)
- joker (one who makes lots of jokes)
References
edit- ^ “droll”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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