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Jesting vs Droll - What's the difference?

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Jesting is a related term of droll.


As nouns the difference between jesting and droll

is that jesting is joking while droll is (archaic) a buffoon.

As adjectives the difference between jesting and droll

is that jesting is facetious while droll is oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.

As verbs the difference between jesting and droll

is that jesting is while droll is (archaic) to joke, to jest.

jesting

English

Noun

  • joking
  • * Shakespeare
  • Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings .
  • bantering; ridicule
  • mocking
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • facetious
  • humorous
  • * Macaulay
  • He will find that these are no jesting matters.
  • playful; mocking
  • jeering
  • Verb

    (head)
  • droll

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * drollery * drolly * drollness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A buffoon
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
  • 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)
  • (archaic) To joke, to jest.
  • * 1886 , Robert Louise Stevenson, Kidnapped
  • "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?

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