droll

adjective
🔊/drəʊl/
🔊/drəʊl/
(old-fashioned or ironic)
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  1. funny, but not in a way that you expect离奇可笑的;滑稽古怪的
    • So they’ve locked me out of the house? Very droll, I’m sure!所以他们把我锁在屋外了吗?我敢肯定,真是太傻了!
    • There was a droll, cynical expression on his face.他的脸上洋溢着愤世嫉俗的表情。
    Word Originearly 17th cent. (as an adjective): from French drôle, perhaps from Middle Dutch drolle ‘imp, goblin’.