drolle
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Afrikaans
[edit]Noun
[edit]drolle
French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]drolle (plural drolles)
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French drolle, from Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą.[1]
Adjective
[edit]drolle m or f (plural drolles)
Noun
[edit]drolle m (plural drolles)
- joker (one who makes lots of jokes)
References
[edit]- ^ “droll”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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