drollist

English

Etymology

From droll +‎ -ist.

Noun

drollist (plural drollists)

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

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