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- Dictionarytroll/trɒl/
noun
- 1. a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post: "one solution is to make a troll's postings invisible to the rest of community once they've been recognized"
- 2. a line or bait used in trolling for fish.
verb
- 1. make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them: "if people are obviously trolling then I'll delete your posts and do my best to ban you"
- 2. carefully and systematically search an area for something: "a group of companies trolling for partnership opportunities"
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Oct 30, 2008 · Troll as a verb has a number of related meanings, but at root means to wander or ramble, including to quest for game (i.e. in hunting) in a rather aimless fashion. It has got mixed up, somewhat, with "roll", and in conflation with that word, also means to pass around (e.g. from hand to hand) and to sing a catch or round.
Dec 15, 2020 · troll - WordReference.com Dictionary of English. 1 to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice: [no object]to troll merrily in the choir. [~ + object]to troll some notes. A.
Hello, all I ran into this topic expression, troll on, at a comment box in an online baseball community. A member used it to another member as follows. It must suck that your life is so boring and dull that you have to troll on a Korean baseball group to find enjoyment in life. My pure guess...
Mar 4, 2015 · Under the skies men have a common saying: "Man, to thyself be true!" But here, 'mongst Trolls, "Troll, to thyself be - enough!" it runs. Among the translations I have found for "to thyself be enough" in exactly this theatrical context is "bastarse a si mismo." But this seems to suggest more the sense of self-sufficiency and self-reliance than ...
Dec 21, 2021 · If you are looking for American English terms, we usually say a person is cold-natured (always cold when others are comfortable) or hot-natured (hot when others are comfortable). "Cold-natured" is what people say, in the context of a conversation about temperature (in a different context it could mean emotionally cold) ...
Oct 28, 2017 · Oct 28, 2017. #7. hack3rcon said: In the hacker community; trolling around trying to fish out sensitive information from other users is called phishing. Here he lumps together "hacking" and "phishing" and "trolling" as if they were the same, but they are three different things. But he is using a metaphor of fishing.
Feb 10, 2005 · Dork, even though my mother couldn't stand the word because of it's original meaning, refers to someone who is being intentionally silly or unintentionally. And of course as mentioned before, "geek" has taken on a cyber meaning. As a teacher, students still use the terms interchangeably as a means of teasing one another. To truly insult one ...
Apr 7, 2015 · Apr 7, 2015. #6. I would say that the distinction is much more straightforward. They are mirror terms: "Let" is what the owner of a property does when they allow someone else to use it in return for money ("rent" as noun). "Rent" (as verb) is what someone does when paying someone else for the use of their property.
Aug 20, 2008 · English - Australia. Aug 20, 2008. #3. You can find the answer in the Word Reference dictionary: 5 turn. become officially one year older; "She is turning 50 this year". In other words, "My son just turned two" means he reached 24 months old recently. He may have turned two as recently as yesterday but you might also say this if he turned two a ...
Mar 10, 2013 · Tateleh means an obedient child - an Hebrew equivalent can be ילד טוב ירושלים yeled tov yerushalaim = a good child Jerusalem. פספוס fasfus, borrowed from Arabic, also exists. From Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) we have the suffix -ico for pet names such as Moshe -> Moshico, while other Ladino words are totally out of use, e.g ...
