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Troll


Definition:

  • (n.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.
  • (v. t.) To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
  • (v. t.) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
  • (v. t.) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.
  • (v. t.) To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
  • (v. t.) To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
  • (v. i.) To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
  • (v. i.) To move rapidly; to wag.
  • (v. i.) To take part in trolling a song.
  • (v. i.) To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.
  • (n.) The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
  • (n.) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
  • (n.) A trolley.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (2) Trolls called Kaepernick racial epithets , after all.
  • (3) (They also delivered an encouraging decision on patent trolls just this week.)
  • (4) Asked by a troll how long he planned to “live off” his Olympic success, and if he would ever do anything of consequence again, Rutherford suggested he might become a porn star or dabble in pottery instead.
  • (5) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
  • (6) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Oliver on Donald Trump: ‘A Klan-backed misogynist internet troll’ Hang on a minute: who am I as a Briton to interfere in the internal affairs of a foreign country?
  • (8) And I’m sorry, that will come before any internal party-political issue and I think I should be able to adopt that position without being attacked, without being subject to a nasty troll-form of politics.” On Tuesday the prime minister, David Cameron, promised to publish a comprehensive strategy on Syria in the form of a written response to a report by the foreign affairs select committee, which concluded that the government had failed to make the case for extending airstrikes.
  • (9) Indeed, the internet’s troll culture developed, at least in part, as a response to the inane “participation” offered by online marketers.
  • (10) Now, some are accustomed to Dawkins being a bit of a troll.
  • (11) At least that’s what one sewing blogger’s followers decided after an internet troll came out of nowhere to tell her she should “eat less cake”.
  • (12) The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi hate site whose founder organizes harassing “troll storms” of abuse towards political opponents, surpassed the traffic ratings of Stormfront, a more traditional racist site, last July, according to the center’s analysis, becoming the most popular English-language far-right site.
  • (13) This is the dead centre of troll territory; what they're looking for is that sharp intake of breath; the collective, "How can you say that?"
  • (14) You should eat less cake’.” In response, Rushmore posted another picture with a defiant message for the troll.
  • (15) When women can be misogynist trolls, we need a feminist internet | Polly Toynbee Read more “We have got a very real problem with online abuse in this country,” she said.
  • (16) Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee carrying out a parallel inquiry, has said that at least 1,000 “paid internet trolls working out of a facility in Russia” were pumping anti-Clinton fake news into social media sites during the campaign.
  • (17) The most widely accepted definition of a troll is a provocateur – someone who says outrageous, extreme or abusive things to elicit a reaction.
  • (18) Trolls are not often in a rush to discuss their behaviour with a stranger who might spill their darkest deeds to the world.
  • (19) She admitted getting dates wrong, – giving both trials and the police three separate dates for the visits – but insisted the event, as Trolle later testified, was true.
  • (20) A variety of different forms of online abuse are highlighted on the site, from trolling (deliberately posting “offensive, upsetting or inflammatory comments online in an attempt to hurt and provoke a response”) to doxxing (publishing personal information about someone, including sex videos and photos, also known as revenge porn) and cyberstalking (“a pattern of online behaviour that is the long-term, intrusive and persistent pursuit of one person by another, making the victim feel frightened and distressed”).

Trowl


Definition:

  • (n.) See Troll.

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