drollish

English

Etymology

From droll +‎ -ish.

Adjective

drollish (comparative more drollish, superlative most drollish)

1. Somewhat droll.
   • 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:

     from a little subacid kind of drollish impatience in his nature

Derived terms

• drollishness

References

• “drollish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.