[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Far from the humorless, droll individual that 18th-century iconography suggests

"Droll"?

I do not think that word means what you think it means...

[La Enchiladita]

What do you think I think it means? Hint: I am not the author.

[La Lydia]

Her? Or the person who actually wrote it and used the word?

[Fester Chugabrew]

“Droll.” A word to snare a wordsmith, and it worked this time.