droll
Speech parts
1. droll - Noun
2. droll - Adjective
3. droll - Verb
5. droll - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
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.
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a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor
About the same time, he began to appear as a lecturer and, by his droll and eccentric humor, attracted large audiences.
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.
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.
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.
One meaning is "amusing, jocular, droll" and the other meaning is "odd, quirky, peculiar".