drollist

English

Etymology

From droll +‎ -ist.

Noun

drollist (plural drollists)

1. (archaic) A joker; a buffoon.
   • 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:

     These idle Drollists have an utter Antipathy to all the braver and more generous kinds of Knowledge

References

• “drollist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.