Droll

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.

   “Very droll, minister.”

2. isim A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.

   “The lieutenant was a droll in his way, Peregrine possessed a great fund of sprightliness and good humour, and Godfrey, among his other qualifications already recited, sung a most excellent song […].”

3. fiil To jest, to joke.

   “"Eh, man," said I, drolling with him a little, "you're very ingenious! But would it not be simpler for you to write him a few words in black and white?" / "And that is an excellent observe, Mr. Balfour of Shaws," says Alan, drolling with me; [...]”

4. isim The ghost of a child, especially one who died a painful death.

   “Drolls are spirits of young children who died a painful death. They can be heard, the Negroes say, crying piteously at night in deep swamps and deserted marshland.”

5. özel isim A surname from German.