drollains
Fingallian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with English drolling (“joke, jest”). Equivalent to *droll + -een.
Noun
[edit]drollains
- fopperies
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
- Drollains,
- Fopperies.
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):