drollist

English

Etymology

droll +‎ -ist

Noun

drollist (plural drollists)

  1. (archaic) A droll; a buffoon.
    • 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:
      These idle Drollists have an utter Antipathy to all the braver and more generous kinds of Knowledge

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “drollist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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