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drôle

/dʁol/

adjective/dʁol/

funny, amusing; strange, weird, bizarre

On a beaucoup ri, il est vraiment très drôle.We laughed a lot, he was really so funny.

Synonyms: comique, désopilant, marrant, rigolo, poilant, crampant, fendard

Inherited from Middle French drolle (“a merry fellow, pleasant rascal”) from Old French drolle (“one who lives luxuriously”), from Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą.

noun, masculine/dʁol/plural: drôles

rascal, scoundrel; child, kid, lad

[…]et puis, je me suis un peu détourné de la ligne droite pour aller jeter à la rivière un affreux enfant qui criait : À bas les papistes, vive l’amiral ! Malheureusement, je crois que le drôle savait nager.[…] and then, I went a little off the straight part of the road to hurl a repulsive child who was shouting "Down with the papists, long live the admiral!" into the river. Unfortunately, I believe that the rascal could swim.

Inherited from Middle French drolle (“a merry fellow, pleasant rascal”) from Old French drolle (“one who lives luxuriously”), from Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą.