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Rollicking vs Droll - What's the difference?

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Rollicking is a related term of droll.


As verbs the difference between rollicking and droll

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

As nouns the difference between rollicking and droll

is that rollicking is (uk) a scolding, a bollocking while droll is (archaic) a buffoon.

As adjectives the difference between rollicking and droll

is that rollicking is carefree, merry and boisterous while droll is oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.

rollicking

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) A scolding, a bollocking.
  • * 2004 . Richard Ayoade as Dean Leaner in "Once Upon a Beginning", Garth Marenghi's Darkplace episode 1
    • Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm going to give him the rollicking of his life.
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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • carefree, merry and boisterous
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 27 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).}}

    Synonyms

    * rollicksome

    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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