That's why it's a target. Earnest response - mildly rewarding for the troller if it were a fish you'd probably throw it back in, though. Without saying so explicitly, both Raymond's and Gladstone's definitions offer some extra information. Raymond's makes it clear that as a noun, troll can refer to the offending message itself, and Gladstone's explanation implies that who engage in trolling are referred to as trollers, at least in the s.
These days, though, the preferred term is just troll. We'll have more to say about troll the noun a little later. Meanwhile, between the s and today, troll the verb has undergone some meaning changes. At the very least, its range has grown along with the Internet itself. In , there was no World Wide Web at all, and now in the Web 2. When it was coined, trolling reflected its fishing-related origin.
It was generally intransitive, and if the victims were specified, it was in a prepositional phrase headed by for, as in trolling for newbies. Within that point of view, the thing that underwent the trolling was either the newsgroup, or the "bait"—i. For example, on January 15, , Phil Gustafson wrote in a post to AFU, "Newer posters may not realize that munged Churchill quotes are among the hoariest baits trolled in afu. Or have I just been trolled? Online, the phrase You've been trolled is common enough to have been shortened to YBT.
The meaning has progressed even further toward trolling specific individuals. Telling someone "You've been trolled," in the passive voice, might just mean that they were caught in a trap that was laid for anyone who might happen to encounter it, but saying in the active voice, "We trolled you" means you were a target. For example, Doug tells about an elaborate practical joke that two of his friends played on another one in the online game of Minecraft; it involved establishing an alibi while they burned his entire settlement to the ground, and convincing him it had been done by a monster rumored to exist in the game.
In short, he says, they trolled him good. This kind of behavior in videogames also has the more specific name of griefing. In fact, trolling has gone from referring to a particular kind of online practical joke, to referring to any kind of practical joke, online or offline. The website The Art of Trolling features a constantly updated stream of pictures, videos, photographs, and screenshots showing practical jokes, only some of which involve the Internet.
For example, one photograph shows a car parked across two parking spaces, and someone has drawn a chalk line on either side of the car, labeling the newly created parking space "A space just for you!
They stalked and spied upon him as he was taking a walk in the woods with his girlfriend. The trolling culminated with the friends surrounding the couple, coming out of hiding while snapping their fingers and singing, "We're the Jets!
The earliest meaning was "to roll" in various contexts; perhaps derived from this was "to sing in the manner of a round or catch. This use has conventionally been linked with Middle French treler, traler, treiller " of hunting dogs look for prey without a trail or the use of a scent hound," and 16th-century troller "to wander from place to place originally of a dog.
Sense 2, attested from the early 's, is probably in part from the fishing sense, in part a derivative of troll entry 3. See more words from the same century. We've expanded the dictionary with more than words and definitions. Accessed 12 Nov. Nglish: Translation of troll for Spanish Speakers. Britannica English: Translation of troll for Arabic Speakers.
Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of troll Entry 1 of 3. Definition of troll Entry 2 of 3. The NFL tweeted the initial logo Thursday, but later deleted it as the Chargers even got trolled by other pro and college sports teams over the logo that looked like a cross between baseball's Dodgers and hockey's Lightning.
Caro said she got trolled by fans because of the rumor of a lack of music. Definition of troll Entry 3 of 3. The Greta is an excellent troll ing stream, but the fish are not near the average weight of those in the Eden.
They permit troll ing with angels, or phantoms, or the natural minnow. The latter had gone fishing with Old Bill as his guide, and their boat could be seen troll ing slowly along the far shore. Then she left them, and in her white room for an hour she listened hopelessly to the troll ing wind. I was using light tackle, and of course troll ing, with the reel free running, except for my thumb.
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