Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To jest, to joke.
noun
A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.
From French drôle (“comical, odd, funny”), from drôle (“buffoon”) from Middle French drolle (“a merry fellow, pleasant rascal”) from Old French drolle (“one who lives luxuriously”), from Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą. Doublet of drôle and troll.
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