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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.