drolly

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
"You may ride a bicycle every day, if you wish I'd rather have an automobile,"--drolly An airship, if money will buy it They say--my uncle says--that I am not capable of loving anything What do I care what they say?

View all »
Definitions (1)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

  1. In a droll or comical manner. At first sight, nothing seems more drolly trivial than the lives of those whose single achievement is to record the wind and the temperature three times a day. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 5.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • He glanced to Marguerite and asked drolly, "Isn't your dog's name Julius?" —  Lynsay Sands - [Argeneau 09] - Vampire, Interrupted
  • In Himmel und Erde_, February, 1889--a phenomenon of transition of thirty years ago--Herr O. Jesse, in his observations upon luminous night-clouds, notes the great height of them, and drolly or sensibly suggests that some of them may have come from regions external to this earth. —  The Book of the Damned
  • So while the party sought the woods until the time for dinner, Pete went to bring out "de table and cheers," thinking of the good time he was to have, "listenin' to de grand talk of dem town folks At the appointed hour the "wolves" sought their prey I guess dat here will do to begin with," remarked Pete, drolly, as he deposited on the table two large dishes of chicken, and a plate of tongue Yes, that will do for the first bite," was the reply, of one of the young men. —  'Our Guy' or, The elder brother
  • "I suppose he is very tired when he goes to bed," she said, drolly, as though that could be the only explanation of sleep amid such surroundings. —  The Cow Puncher
  • "You may ride a bicycle every day, if you wish I'd rather have an automobile,"--drolly An airship, if money will buy it They say--my uncle says--that I am not capable of loving anything What do I care what they say? —  The Princess Elopes
More examples »
 

Tags

drolly hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 28 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

synergistic · toffee · snowy · ordination · incoherent

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich