droll

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It's droll, droll--because a soft white coward died--they would kill me, me that would kill a man when I drew my dirk--ho, ho, ho I lay hid among the rocks above the Herring Slap, alane day and night, and the blue rockdoos left their nestlings and circled above my lair, till I was feart that folk wid see them, and come peering down and get me.

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  1. adjective Amusingly odd or whimsically comical.
  2. noun Archaic A buffoon.

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  1. French drôle, buffoon, droll, from Old French drolle, bon vivant, possibly from Middle Dutch drol, goblin.

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  1. from Old French drolle, draule, a good fellow, boon companion, wag, modern F. dróle, a rogue, knave, fellow, from Middle Dutch, Dutch drol, a droll. merry-andrew, humorous fellow, a troll, a round lump; cf. German droll, a short thick person (of Low German origin), G. dial, droll, troll, a troll (see troll); cf. Gael, droll, an awkward sluggard (see droil). The relations of the several words are not clear. See droll, adjective
  2. from French dróle, odd, queer, comical, funny. In both F. and English the adjective appears later than the noun. Cf. German drollig, merry, facetious, droll, odd. See droll, n.
  3. = Old French droler, jest, trifle, play; from the noun.
 

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