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Definitions of droll in various dictionaries:
adj - comical in an odd or whimsical manner
A buffoon.
adv - causing laughter or amusement [ adj -NIER, -NIEST] : FUNNILY
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| Whimsically humorous |
| Waggish |
| Facetious |
| Oddly amusing |
| Wryly amusing |
| Wry |
| Witty |
| Dryly amusing |
| À la Nash |
| Whimsical |
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| Whimsically humorous |
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| comical in an odd or whimsical manner |
| Amusingly odd or whimsically comical. |
| Archaic A buffoon. |
| Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement. |
| A jester or entertainer a buffoon. |
| a jester or entertainer a buffoon. |
| curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement. |
| humorous, especially in an unusual way: |
| amusing in an unusual way: |
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A droll is a short comical sketch of a type that originated during the Puritan Interregnum in England. With the closure of the theatres, actors were left without any way of plying their art. Borrowing scenes from well-known plays of the Elizabethan theatre, they added dancing and other entertainments and performed these, sometimes illegally, to make money. Along with the popularity of the source play, material for drolls was generally chosen for physical humor or for wit. * Francis Kirkman's The Wits, or Sport Upon Sport, 1662, is a collection of twenty-seven drolls. Three are adapted from Shakespeare: Bottom the Weaver from A Midsummer Night's Dream, the gravedigger's scene from Hamlet, and a collection of scenes involving Falstaff called The Bouncing Knight. A typical droll presented a subplot from John Marston's The Dutch Courtesan; the piece runs together all the scenes in which a greedy vintner is gulled and robbed by a deranged gallant. * Just under half of the drolls in Kirkman's b |