troller

English

Etymology

From troll +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)

• Audio (US):

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Noun

troller (plural trollers)

1. One who fishes by trolling.
2. An engine-powered fishing boat, used for moving slowly while fishing lines drag behind, sometimes able to sail in shallow water.
3. (Internet slang, nonstandard) A troll; a user who maliciously provokes others.
   • c. 2002, Mike Reed, “Archived copy”, in Flame Warriors‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 February 2015:

     Troller is looking for a response...ANY response, and he will chum the waters with complaints, insults, compliments, and inflammatory tidbits hoping that someone...ANYONE, will take the bait.

See also

• trawler

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French troller, from Old French troller, of Germanic origin, probably from Middle High German trollen (“to stroll, walk with short strides”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *truzlōną (“to lumber”), which is probably related to *trudaną (“to tread, step on”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ.le/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

troller

1. (hunting) to wander unsystematically about, looking for game
2. (Internet) to troll

Conjugation

Conjugation of troller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	troller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trollant /tʁɔ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trollé /tʁɔ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trolle /tʁɔl/	trolles /tʁɔl/	trolle /tʁɔl/	trollons /tʁɔ.lɔ̃/	trollez /tʁɔ.le/	trollent /tʁɔl/
	imperfect	trollais /tʁɔ.lɛ/	trollais /tʁɔ.lɛ/	trollait /tʁɔ.lɛ/	trollions /tʁɔ.ljɔ̃/	trolliez /tʁɔ.lje/	trollaient /tʁɔ.lɛ/
	past historic2	trollai /tʁɔ.le/	trollas /tʁɔ.la/	trolla /tʁɔ.la/	trollâmes /tʁɔ.lam/	trollâtes /tʁɔ.lat/	trollèrent /tʁɔ.lɛʁ/
	future	trollerai /tʁɔl.ʁe/	trolleras /tʁɔl.ʁa/	trollera /tʁɔl.ʁa/	trollerons /tʁɔl.ʁɔ̃/	trollerez /tʁɔl.ʁe/	trolleront /tʁɔl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trollerais /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/	trollerais /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/	trollerait /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/	trollerions /tʁɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	trolleriez /tʁɔ.lə.ʁje/	trolleraient /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	trolle /tʁɔl/	trolles /tʁɔl/	trolle /tʁɔl/	trollions /tʁɔ.ljɔ̃/	trolliez /tʁɔ.lje/	trollent /tʁɔl/
	imperfect2	trollasse /tʁɔ.las/	trollasses /tʁɔ.las/	trollât /tʁɔ.la/	trollassions /tʁɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	trollassiez /tʁɔ.la.sje/	trollassent /tʁɔ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trolle /tʁɔl/	—	trollons /tʁɔ.lɔ̃/	trollez /tʁɔ.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013), “tredan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 521

Further reading

• “troller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012