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drollish

drollish adjective: somewhat droll.

Adjective

drollish (comparative more drollish, superlative most drollish)

  1. Somewhat droll.
    • from a little subacid kind of drollish impatience in his nature1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]

Forms of drollish

comparativemore drollish
superlativemost drollish

Origin of drollish

From droll + -ish.

Words formed from drollish

Questions about drollish

What does drollish mean?
Drollish means somewhat droll.
What part of speech is drollish?
Drollish is an adjective.

Words near drollish in the dictionary

  1. drollery
  2. drollest
  3. drolling
  4. drollingly
  5. drollings
  6. drollish
  7. drollishness
  8. drollist
  9. drollists
  10. drollness
  11. drollnesses

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