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Definition: DROLLING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb droll.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Base
(drolly)
1. In a comic, quizzical, waggish, comical or preposterous manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
2. In a strange, eccentric, queer, fanciful or exotic manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
3. In an odd, erratic, singular or whimsical manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
4. In a quaint, unusual, freakish or inquisitive manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
5. In a fantastical or imaginative manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
6. In a fantastic, grotesque, marvellous or wonderful manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
7. In an antic manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
8. In a particular or special manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
9. In a cute, pleasant or sympathetic manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
10. Infrequently used adverbial inflection of the adjective droll.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(droll)
1. To jest; to play the buffoon.[Websters].
2. To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.[Websters].
3. To make a jest of; to set in a comical light.[Websters].
4. Base verb from the following inflections: drolling, drolled, drolls, droller, drollers, drollingly and drolledly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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"Drolling" is a common misspelling or typo for: Rolling, dropping, drilling, Dorling, drooling, Doling, Trolling, Dolling, Drillings.

Date "Drolling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Specialty Definition: DROLLING

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] Low wit; buffoonery. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Topics by Level of Interest: DROLLING

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Michel Martin Drolling 7     Michel Martin Drolling 7

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"drolling" is a common misspelling or typo for: Rolling, dropping, drilling, Dorling, drooling, Doling, Trolling, Dolling, Drillings.


Computed Synonyms: drolling

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   55.3094   drolling     stranging     weirding, queering, outlandishing, aliening, strangering   
 2   52.3094   drolling     queering     stranging, weirding, outlandishing, freakishing, drunkenning   
 3   37.3094   drolling     zanying     fooling, simpling, buffooning, clowning, idioting   
 4   35.3094   drolling     weirding     stranging, foolishing, queering, outlandishing, freaking   
 5   34.3090   drolling     outlandishing     stranging, weirding, queering, freakishing, aliening   
 6   29.3094   drolling     anticing     stranging, queering, weirding, zanying, freakishing   
 7   28.3092   drolling     freakishing     queering, weirding, stranging, outlandishing, freaking   
 8   23.3093   drolling     buffooning     clowning, zanying, harlequining, fooling, wagging   
 9   18.3092   drolling     burlesquing     parodying, caricaturing, mocking, burdening, bulking   
 10   15.4096   drolling     fooling     idioting, foolishing, imbeciling, boobing, assing   
 11   14.3095   drolling     clowning     buffooning, zanying, harlequining, louting, waging   
 12   13.3094   drolling     wagging     wiggle, waggle, stir, agitate, to agitate   
 13   13.3094   drolling     waging     salarying, wagging, stirring, get going, investigating   
 14   11.3096   drolling     jollying     gladding, brighting, sweeting, gooding, freshing   
 15   11.3094   drolling     jesting     gaging, larking, humouring, joking, quiping   
--------------------     148 synonyms ranked from 16 to 163 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top