1. droll - Noun
2. droll - Adjective
3. droll - Verb
5. droll - Adjective Satellite
Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.
One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.
Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.
To jest; to play the buffoon.
To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.
To make a jest of; to set in a comical light.
Source: Webster's dictionarya droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor Source: Internet
About the same time, he began to appear as a lecturer and, by his droll and eccentric humor, attracted large audiences. Source: Internet
At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry". citation Nash wrote over 500 pieces of comic verse. Source: Internet
Campbell's manly, mock-heroic posturing is perfectly in keeping with the director's droll outlook." citation Desson Howe, in this review for The Washington Post praised the film's style: "Bill Pope's cinematography is gymnastic and appropriately frenetic. Source: Internet
But Cabell's signature droll style is clearly in evidence, and in later printings each book would bear a characteristically Cabellian subtitle: A Comedy of Purse-Strings, A Comedy of Shirking, and A Comedy of Limitations, respectively. Source: Internet
One meaning is "amusing, jocular, droll" and the other meaning is "odd, quirky, peculiar". Source: Internet