All 3 Uses of
droll
in
A Separate Peace
- He opened his green eyes wider and gave us his maniac look, and only the smirk on his wide mouth with its droll, slightly protruding upper lip reassured us that he wasn't completely goofy.†
p. 14.9droll = comical in an unusual way
- "Great!" he said, bobbing instantly to the surface again, his wet hair plastered in droll bangs on his forehead.†
p. 16.8 *
- Or I wonder now whether it wasn't cider but our own exuberance which intoxicated us, sent restraint flying, causing Brinker to throw the football block on the statue of the Headmaster, giving me, as I put on the skis and slid down the small slope and off the miniature ski jump a sensation of soaring flight, of hurtling high and far through space; inspiring Phineas, during one of Chet's Spanish inventions, to climb onto the Prize Table and with only one leg to create a droll dance among the prizes, springing and spinning from one bare space to another, cleanly missing Hazel Brewster's hair, never marring by a misstep the pictures of Betty Grable.†
p. 136.2
Definition:
comical in an unusual way -- often clever and understated