Definitions
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- adjective Somewhat droll.
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- adjective Somewhat
droll .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Peter, your drollish "wolf by itself a lone wolf, one might say" reminded me of a line in an Ed McBain novel I read recently.
The girl who kicked the publisher's keister for misplacing an apostrophe Peter Rozovsky 2010
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And there had been -- some sort of an argument -- with a drollish old man -- concerning all homely girls in general and one very specially homely little girl in particular.
Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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"The Family that Plays Together" … a drollish joke at their own expense given that Ed Cassidy, the drummer, was Randy California's step-dad (and by the way, still alive today) and a mere 45 or so.
Irish Blogs The Cedar Lounge Revolution 2010
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