Troll

Noun

 * 1)  A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
 * 2)  An ugly person of either sex
 * 3) An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line.
 * 4)  A person who posts to a newsgroup, bulletin board, etc., in a way intended to anger other posters and to cause drama, or otherwise disrupt the group's intended purpose.
 * 5)  A deliberately inflammatory post to a newsgroup, etc.

Verb

 * 1)  To trundle, to roll from side to side.
 * 2)  To saunter.
 * 3)  To entice fish with bait; to fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat.
 * 4)  By extension, to search (for), to draw out, to entice, to lure.
 * 5)  To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner.
 * 6)  To disrupt the operation of an online community, particularly by luring others into combative argument.
 * 7)  To move circularly.
 * 8)  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.

Thesaurus
drag, draggle, dragon, drake, draw, drive, fish, fly-fish, forward, fugato, fugue, furl, gig, go fishing, griffin, grig, guddle, hale, haul, heave, hippocampus, hum, hymn, impel, intonate, intone, jack, jacklight, jig, lilt, lug, mermaid, merman, minstrel, move, net, nixie, ogre, ogress, pedal, pipe, pole, propel, psalm, pull, push, quaver, roc, roll, roll up, rondeau, rondino, rondo, rondoletto, roulade, round, roundelay, row, salamander, satyr, sea horse, sea serpent, seine, serenade, shake, shove, shrimp, shunt, sing, sing in chorus, siren, snake, sol-fa, solmizate, spin, still-fish, sweep, sweep along, take in tow, thrust, torch, tow, trail, train, trawl, treadle, tremolo, trill, trundle, tug, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, unicorn, vampire, vocalize, warble, werewolf, whale, whistle, windigo, xiphopagus, yodel, zombie, Argus, Briareus, Cerberus, Charybdis, Cyclops, Echidna, Gorgon, Harpy, Hydra, Loch Ness monster, Medusa, Minotaur, Pegasus, Python, Scylla, Sphinx, Talos, Typhon, advance, angle, anthem, bait the hook, ballad, bob, bowl, bunt, butt, canon, carol, catch, centaur, chant, chimera, chirp, chirrup, choir, chorus, clam, cockatrice, croon, dap, descant, dib, dibble, do-re-mi,

Etymology 1
From, or  troll:, from  troll:, possibly related to the Middle High German trol:. Compare Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) trylle:, Danish trylle: and Swedish trolla:.

Etymology 2
From troll:, from  troller: ( trôler:) and Middle High German trollen:; fishing sense possibly influenced by trawl:

Etymology 3
From trollen:

Derived terms

 * concern troll
 * feed the troll


 * patent troll
 * troll-friendly

Related terms

 * griefer

Noun

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 * Bulgarian: трол
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 * Dutch: trol
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 * Hindi: ट्रोल
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 * Macedonian: трол
 * Northern Sami:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Norse: troll
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 * Turkish: trol
 * Ukrainian: троль
 * Vietnamese: quỷ khổng lồ
 * Welsh: ellyll

Noun

 * Finnish: trolli, trollaus, rölli, provo
 * French: troll
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 * Italian: troll
 * Macedonian: трол
 * Swedish: troll

Noun
troll


 * 1) troll (supernatural being)

Noun
troll


 * 1) troll (supernatural being)

Noun

 * 1) troll (supernatural being)