See drôle on Wiktionary
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"english": "[…] and then, I went a little off the straight part of the road to hurl a repulsive child who was shouting \"Down with the papists, long live the admiral!\" into the river. Unfortunately, I believe that the rascal could swim.",
"ref": "1845, Arthur Dumas, La Reine Margot:",
"text": "[…]et puis, je me suis un peu détourné de la ligne droite pour aller jeter à la rivière un affreux enfant qui criait : À bas les papistes, vive l’amiral ! Malheureusement, je crois que le drôle savait nager.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"rascal, scoundrel"
],
"links": [
[
"rascal",
"rascal"
],
[
"scoundrel",
"scoundrel"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) rascal, scoundrel"
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"French endearing terms",
"French terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "What do you know about it, my poor little thing?",
"ref": "1969, François Mauriac, Un adolescent d’autrefois, Flammarion, page 284:",
"text": "Qu’est-ce que tu en sais, mon pauvre drôle ?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"child, kid, lad"
],
"links": [
[
"endearing",
"endearing"
],
[
"child",
"child"
],
[
"kid",
"kid"
],
[
"lad",
"lad"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(southern France, endearing) child, kid, lad"
],
"tags": [
"France",
"Southern",
"endearing",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dʁol/"
},
{
"audio": "Fr-drôle.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/04/Fr-dr%C3%B4le.ogg/Fr-dr%C3%B4le.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Fr-dr%C3%B4le.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ol"
},
{
"homophone": "drôles"
}
],
"word": "drôle"
}
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