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trollery

noun

Etymology

From troll + -ery.

  1. derived from trǫll
  2. borrowed from trold
  3. borrowed from troll
  4. borrowed from troll
  5. derived from *truzlą✻ — “supernatural being; demon, fiend; giant; monster”
  6. derived from trǫll — “conjurer, mage; witch”
  7. inherited from trol — “demon (?); sorcerer (?)”
  8. suffixed as trollery — “troll + ery”

Definitions

  1. Online behavior that is deliberately provocative or disruptive.

    • Readers can set their filters so they see only comments with high ratings—and trollery effectively vanishes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for trollery. 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