Droll vs Catty - What's the difference?
droll | catty |
oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish
(archaic) A buffoon
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
(archaic) To joke, to jest.
* 1886 , Robert Louise Stevenson, Kidnapped
(informal, of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women.
(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a cat.
A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram.
* 2009 , Huaiyin Li, Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008 , Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-5974-8,
* 1699 , Captain William Dampier, A new voyage round the world, Volume 1 :
* 1847 , Robert Montgomery Martin, China; Political, Commercial, and Social , Volume 2, James Madden (publisher),
As adjectives the difference between droll and catty
is that droll is oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish while catty is (informal|of a person or remark) with subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women.As nouns the difference between droll and catty
is that droll is (archaic) a buffoon while catty is a (unit of) weight used in china, generally standardized as half a kilogram.As a verb droll
is (archaic) to joke, to jest.droll
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* drollery * drolly * drollnessNoun
(en noun)- Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
Verb
(en verb)- "Eh, man," said I, drolling with him a little, "you're very ingenious! But would it not be simpler for you to write him a few words in black and white?
Anagrams
* ----catty
English
Alternative forms
* cattieEtymology 1
; in sense “hostility”, see (m).Adjective
(er)- a catty smell
Synonyms
* (spiteful) bitchy (derogatory), cattish, malicious, nasty, snide, spitefulSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) kati, from (etyl) languages, Mandarin:Noun
(head)page 94:
- To limit team members' consumption, it issued food stamps to the villagers and allowed everyone to eat one catty of rice a day.
- 16 Mess'', make a ''Tale'', which here is 20 ''s''. ''English'', 5 ''Tale'' make a ''Bancal'', a weight so called, and 20 ''Bancal'' make a ''Catty , another weight.
page 124:
- Transparent yellow pieces are the best; the price is from eight to fourteen dollars per catty , according to size and quality.