drollist
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editdrollist (plural drollists)
- (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
edit- “drollist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.