different between droll vs mirthful
droll
English
Etymology
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”) from Old Norse troll (“giant, troll”) (compare Middle High German trolle (“clown”)), from Proto-Germanic *truzl? (“creature which walks clumsily”), from *truzlan? (“to walk with short steps”). Doublet of troll.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d???l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?o?l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Adjective
droll (comparative droller, superlative drollest)
- Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:witty
Derived terms
- drollery
- drollness
- drolly
Translations
Noun
droll (plural drolls)
- (archaic) A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol I, ch. 34:
- 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 […] .
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol I, ch. 34:
Verb
droll (third-person singular simple present drolls, present participle drolling, simple past and past participle drolled)
- (archaic) To jest, to joke.
Anagrams
- roll'd
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tr?tl/
- Rhymes: -?tl
Noun
droll n (genitive singular drolls, no plural)
- dawdling, loitering
Declension
Related terms
- drolla
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mirthful
English
Alternative forms
- mirthfull (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English mirthful, equivalent to mirth +? -ful.
Adjective
mirthful (comparative mirthfuller or more mirthful, superlative mirthfullest or most mirthful)
- Filled with mirth.
- Synonyms: happy, joyful
- Antonym: mirthless
Derived terms
- mirthfully
- mirthfulness
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