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Jonah fishing

noun

Etymology

Referring to Jonah in the Bible, who was swallowed by a great fish. See Internet and fishing senses at troll.

Definitions

  1. The situation in which a user who has been trolled claims that they only posted in order…

    The situation in which a user who has been trolled claims that they only posted in order to bait the troll into a response.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Jonah fishing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA