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Entry 6 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Droll

/(drōl)/ · IPA /dɹoʊl/
01 a. Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.
  1. 1.
    Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.
Syn. Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical. Laughable is the generic term, denoting anything exciting laughter or worthy of laughter; comical denotes something of the kind exhibited in comedies, something humorous of the kind exhibited in comedies, something, as it were, dramatically humorous; droll stands lower on the scale, having reference to persons or things which excite laughter by their buffoonery or oddity. A laughable incident; a comical adventure; a droll story.
02 n. One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.
  1. 1.
    One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.
  2. 2.
    Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.
03 v. i. To jest; to play the buffoon.
imp. & p. p. Drolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Drolling
  1. 1.
    To jest; to play the buffoon.[R.]
04 v. t. To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.
  1. 1.
    To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.
    “Men that will not be reasoned into their senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them.” — L'Estrange.
  2. 2.
    To make a jest of; to set in a comical light.[R.]
    “This drolling everything is rather fatiguing.” — W. D. Howells.