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Drôle

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Cʹest un drôle,” or “Cʹest un drôle dʹhomme” (he is a rum customer). “Un joyeux drôle” means a boon companion. “Une drôle de chose” means a queer thing; something one can make neither head nor tail of.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Drive Off
Driveller
Drivelling Dotage
Driver of Europe (Le Cocher de lEurope)
Drivers
Drives fat Oxen (Who)
Driving for Rent
Driving Pigs
Droit dAubaine
Drôle
Dromio
Drone
Drop
Drop (To)
Drop in (To)
Drop off (To)
Drop Serene (gutta serena)
Drown the Miller (To)
Drowned Rat
Drowned in a Butt of Malmsey