troll

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See also: Troll, tröll, and trøll

English

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -əʊl, -ɒl

Etymology 1

From Norwegian or Swedish troll or Danish trold, from Old Norse trǫll (“witch, mage, conjurer”) (compare Icelandic tröll), related to Middle High German trolle (“spook, wraith, monster, ogre”).[1] From Proto-Germanic *truzlą (“a supernatural being; demon; fiend; giant; monster”). Norwegian fortrylle (“to bewitch”), Norwegian and Danish trylle (“to conjure”) and Swedish trolla (“to conjure”). Doublet of droll.

Noun

troll (plural trolls)

  1. (fantasy) A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges. [from early 17th c.]
    • 1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, page 7:
      He followed their advice, and rode through a rye-field, where the Trolls were unable to follow him, but in their exasperation cried after him, "The red cock shall crow over thy dwelling." And behold! his house stood in a blaze.
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    • 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, page 3:
      In these manuscripts we are again in an atmosphere of eotens and trolls, there are traces of even older terrors, when the first Teuton settlers in Europe struggled with the aborigines who lived in caves[.]
    • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
      The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
  2. (slang) An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences.
    • 2007, David Lubar, Hidden Talents:
      The way Torchie had talked about him, I expected him to be some kind of troll. But he could have passed for one of those actors who makes a couple of movies, gets real popular with the girls for a year or two, and then vanishes from sight.
    • 2009, Judy Chicago, Sarah Quinton, Jenni Sorkin, When Women Rule the World: Judy Chicago in Thread:
      In this work, the abject object - a sculpture of a fat, hairy woman - is heartbreakingly comforted by a text that claims the artist's love and desire to protect the 'ugly' troll.
    • 2010, Linda Francis Lee, The Devil in the Junior League:
      She sulked as we returned downstairs, her own more colorful clothes stuffed into her bright green shoulder bag. “I just wish I didn't have to dress like such a troll.”
    • 2011, R.E. Donald, Ice on the Grapevine:
      Sharon had no desire to talk to Alora Magee, but she was happy to get out of her cell and away from that disgusting troll and her irritating voice.
    • 2012, James Classi, Heatseeker, page 26:
      Edwin Baer was an ugly troll of a man. He stood just about five feet, six inches and maybe weighed 140 pounds soaking wet.
    • 2012, Thomas Appleby, Life in the Harsh Lane: The Nine Lives, Mishaps, and Adventures of a No-body, page 186:
      I liked one of the girls, Sarah, but her mate, the troll, was a total bitch from hell, probably because guys only fancied Sarah, so we hung out whilst the troll was obviously scheming how to steal my money.
    • 2014, Rock Rampant, Mauve Flush, page 280:
      So if you're hoping to get a fuck, you'll be out of luck, Hideous hag, You are an ugly troll,
  3. (astronomy, meteorology) Optical ejections from the top of the electrically active core regions of thunderstorms that are red in color that seem to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward toward the cloud tops.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English trollen (“to go about, stroll, roll from side to side”), from Old French troller (“to quest, to wander”) (French trôler), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *truzlōną (“to lumber”), which is probably related to *trudaną (“to tread, step on”). Related to Middle High German trollen (“to stroll”), Middle Low German drullen (“to stroll”).

Fishing sense possibly influenced by trawl and/or trail; internet sense influenced by Etymology 1.

Verb

troll (third-person singular simple present trolls, present participle trolling, simple past and past participle trolled)

  1. (intransitive) To saunter. [from late 14th c.]
  2. (intransitive) To trundle, to roll from side to side. [from early 15th c.]
  3. (transitive, figuratively) To draw someone or something out, to entice, to lure as if with trailing bait. [from the 1500s]
    • 1906, Thomas William Lawson, “Fools and Their Money: Some After-Claps of Frenzied Finance”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume XIV, number 5, page 690:
      It was necessary to troll them along two years with the hope of employing their usual methods, in order to get them to a place too far from their starting-point for retreat.
  4. (intransitive, fishing, by extension) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling; to lure fish with bait. [from circa 1600]
  5. (transitive) To angle for with a trolling line, or with a hook drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
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  6. (transitive) To fish in; to try to catch fish from.
  7. (slang, intransitive) To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner. [from 20th c.]
    Synonym: cruise
    He spends most of his waking hours trolling on WIRE.
  8. (intransitive, Internet slang) (to post inflammatory material so as) to attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment and/or gratuitous disruption, especially in an online community or discussion [from late 20th c.]
  9. (transitive, originally Internet slang, by extension) To incite anger (including outside of an Internet context); to provoke, harass or annoy.
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Noun

troll (plural trolls)

  1. An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line. [from circa 1600]
  3. (Internet slang) A person who provokes others (chiefly on the Internet) for their own personal amusement or to cause disruption. [from late 20th c.]
    Coordinate term: griefer
    Hyponym: keyboard warrior
    • 2014 December 19, “Friday 2 January's best TV”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Katie Hopkins: My Fat Story 9pm, TLC. The professional troll and one-time Apprentice stirrer piles on the pounds in order to shed them in this two-part doc, which feels at times like an overly long This Morning item.
    • 2016 June 8, Quentin Hardy, “How Gaming Helped Launch the Attack of the Internet Trolls”, in New York Times‎[2]:
      From there, attacking people head-on — though almost always cloaked in anonymity — wasn’t a big leap. And so much more on the internet became like a game, only the score consisted of attention, outrage or approval from like-minded trolls.
    • 2018 October 30, David Streitfeld, “Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit”, in New York Times‎[3]:
      It was the place you went, shrouded in anonymity, for pornography, hard-core racism, revenge porn, Nazi cheerleading, Jew-baiting, creepshots, fat-shaming, mindless anarchy and pictures of dead kids or of women who had been beaten. If anyone bothered to look, Reddit was proof that on the internet, the trolls were in charge.
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Etymology 3

From Middle English trollen, trollin (“to walk, wander”). Cognate with Low German trullen (“to troll”).

Verb

troll (third-person singular simple present trolls, present participle trolling, simple past and past participle trolled)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To move circularly; to roll; to turn. [from the 15th c.]
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:
      Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance,
      To dress, and troule the Tongue, and roule the Eye.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
  3. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly, freely or in a carefree way. [from the 16th c.]

Noun

troll (plural trolls)

  1. The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
  2. A song whose parts are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
    • 1845, John Wilson, The genius and character of Burns
      Thence the catch and troll, while "Laughter, holding both his sides," sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life.
  3. (obsolete) A trolley.
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Bokmål- og nynorskordboka, Universitetet i Oslo

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Swedish troll, from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *derǝ-, *drā-.

Noun

troll m (plural trolls)

  1. troll (mythical being)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English troll.

Noun

troll m (plural trolls)

  1. troll (inflammatory poster on the Internet)
  2. (by extension) the act of trolling

Further reading

Italian

Noun

troll m (invariable)

  1. troll (grotesque person, Internet troll)

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
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troll

Etymology

From Old Norse trǫll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *derǝ-, *drā-.

Pronunciation

Noun

troll n (definite singular trollet, indefinite plural troll, definite plural trolla or trollene)

  1. troll (supernatural being)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Dialects

Etymology

From Old Norse trǫll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *derǝ-, *drā-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trolː/, /troʎː/

Noun

troll n (definite singular trollet, indefinite plural troll, definite plural trolla)

  1. troll (supernatural being)

Derived terms

References

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from English troll, from Old Norse trǫll.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. troll (supernatural being)
  2. (colloquial, Internet slang) troll

Declension

Declension of troll
singular plural
nominative troll trolle
genitive trolla trolli
dative trollowi trollom
accusative trolla trolle
instrumental trollem trollami
locative trollu trollach
vocative trollu trolle

Further reading

  • troll in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • troll in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Norwegian or Swedish troll, from Old Norse trǫll (“witch, mage, conjurer”) (compare Icelandic tröll), related to Middle High German trolle (“spook, wraith, monster, ogre”).[1] From Proto-Germanic *truzlą (“a supernatural being; demon; fiend; giant; monster”).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔw

Alternative forms

Noun

troll m (plural trolls) (proscribed)

  1. (fantasy, Norse mythology) troll (large, grotesque humanoid living in caves, hills or under bridges)
  2. (Internet) troll (person who provokes others and causes disruption)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Bokmål- og nynorskordboka, Universitetet i Oslo

Spanish

Noun

troll m (plural trolls)

  1. Alternative spelling of trol

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse trǫll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *derǝ-, *drā-.

Pronunciation

Noun

troll n

  1. troll (supernatural being)
  2. troll (internet troll)

Declension

Declension of troll 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative troll trollet troll trollen
Genitive trolls trollets trolls trollens

Derived terms

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English trollen, from Old French troller.

Verb

troll (present participle trolleen)

  1. to roll

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 73
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