Troll

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.

   “He followed their advice, and rode through a rye-field, where the Trolls were unable to follow him, but in their exasperation cried after him, "The red cock shall crow over thy dwelling." And behold! his house stood in a blaze.”

2. isim A type of diminutive supernatural being; a dwarf.
3. isim An ugly or unpleasant person.

   “The way Torchie had talked about him, I expected him to be some kind of troll. But he could have passed for one of those actors who makes a couple of movies, gets real popular with the girls for a year or two, and then vanishes from sight. He had that kind of face.”

4. isim An optical ejection from the top of the electrically active core region of a thunderstorm that is red in colour and seems to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward towards cloudtops.
5. isim A Michigander who lives on the mainland, i.e. not a resident of the Upper Peninsula, so named due to living south of the Mackinaw Bridge.

   “People from the Upper Peninsula—the UP, or the Yoop—some-times call citizens of northern Michigan trolls, because they live “below the bridge.””

6. fiil To move (something, especially a round object) by, or as if by, rolling; to bowl, to roll, to trundle.

   “Take trustie (to trust to) that thinkest to thee, / That trustily thriftines trowleth to thee.”

7. fiil Often followed by in: to cause (something) to flow or roll in like a stream.
8. fiil To roll; also, to turn round and round; to rotate, to spin, to whirl.

   “Mrs Putler, this is Lady—Lady—these tamn'd Southern names rin out o' my head like a stane trowling down hill— […]”

9. fiil To move or walk at a leisurely pace; to ramble, to saunter, to stroll.

   “Prepoſt'rous foole, thou troul'ſt amiſſe: / Thou err'ſt; That's not the vvay, 'Tis this: / Thy hopes, inſtructed by thine Eye, / Make thee appeare more neare than I; […]”

10. fiil Chiefly of a man: synonym of cruise (“to stroll about to find a (male) sexual partner”).
11. fiil Followed by in: to flow or roll in like a stream.

    “This little ape gets money by the sack-full, / It trolls upon her.”

12. fiil To sing the parts of (a catch, round, or similar song) in succession; also (generally), to sing (a song) freely or in a carefree way, or loudly.

    “[Caliban] Thou mak'ſt me merry: I am full of pleaſure, Let vs be iocond. VVill you troule the Catch You taught me but vvhileare?”

13. fiil To pass (something, specifically a bowl or other communal drinking vessel) from one person to another; to circulate, to send about.

    “And Tyb my wyfe, that as her lyfe / loueth well good ale to ſeeke, / Full ofte drynkes ſhee, tyll ye may ſee / the teares run downe her cheekes: / Then dooth ſhe trowle, to mee the bowle / euen as a mault worme shuld, / And ſayth ſweete hart, I took my part / of this ioly good ale and olde.”

14. fiil Of bells: to ring a sequence of tones in a resounding manner.
15. fiil Of a person: to sing the parts of a catch, round, or similar song in succession; also (generally), to sing freely or in a carefree way, or loudly.

    “The Greeks figured Pan, the god of Nature, now terribly stamping his foot, so that armies were dispersed; now by the woodside on a summer noon trolling on his pipe until he charmed the hearts of upland ploughmen.”

16. fiil Of a song: to be sung freely or in a carefree way, or loudly; also, of a tune: to be constantly in someone's mind.

    “I have had the moſt happy invention this morning, and a Tune trouling in my head; […]”

17. fiil Of a bowl or other communal drinking vessel, or the drink inside it: to be passed around from one person to another.

    “Novv the cups trole about to vvet the goſſips vvhiſtles / It poures dovvne I faith, they neuer thinke of payment.”

18. fiil To say (something) lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.

    “VVhat does hee elſe but cant? Or if he runne / To his Iudiciall Aſtrologie, / And trovvle the Trine, the Quartile and the Sextile, / […] / Does not he cant? VVho here does vnderſtand him?”

19. fiil To move (the tongue) lightly and quickly when speaking.

    “[T]hat fair femal Troop […] / Bred onely and completed to the taſte / Of luſtful appetence, to ſing, to dance, / To dreſs, and troule the Tongue, and roule the Eye.”

20. fiil To speak lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.

    “Such ſhuld be our trollynges⸝ Chriſt vs ſo teacheth / Commaunding euer peace⸝ amonges vs for to be / Vntruly he trolleth⸝ that otherwyſe preacheth / Styreng to any ſedicion⸝ malyce or enuye”

21. fiil To move lightly and quickly; especially of the tongue when speaking; to wag.

    “Fill him but a boule, it will make his tongue troule, / For flowing speech flows from a [pot of good ale].”

22. fiil To fish in (a place) using a running fishing line (that is, a line with a hook on the end which is drawn along the water surface, possibly a line which would originally have been spooled on to a troll (etymology 2, noun etymology 2, noun sense 8.1)).

    “Chearful at morn he vvakes from ſhort repoſe, / Breaſts the keen air, and carrols as he goes; / VVith patient angle trolls the finny deep, / Or drives his vent'rous plovv-ſhare to the ſteep.”

23. fiil To attract or draw out (someone or something); to allure, to elicit, to entice, to lure.

    “One while they courſing went / Upon the top of all the ſkie: anon againe full round / They troll me downe to lower wayes and nearer to the ground.”

24. fiil To fish using a running fishing line.

    “I, nor chuſe to bear / The thieviſh nightly net, not barbed ſpear: / Nor drain I ponds the golden carp to take, / Nor trovvle for pikes, diſpeoplers of the lake.”

25. fiil To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling.

    “Their young men […] trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish.”

26. isim An act of moving round; a repetition, a routine.
27. isim An act of fishing by using a running fishing line, or by trailing a line with bait or lures behind a boat.
28. isim A fishing line, bait, or lure used to fish in these ways.
29. isim An inflammatory or insincere statement posted in an attempt to lure others into combative argument (a flame war), originally a way for regulars (long-time users) to poke light-hearted fun at new posters (especially in Usenet newsgroups) and promote in-group cohesion ("trolling for newbies").
30. isim A person who makes or posts inflammatory or insincere statements in an attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate their perception, especially in an online community or discussion.

    “Katie Hopkins: My Fat Story 9pm, TLC The professional troll and one-time Apprentice stirrer piles on the pounds in order to shed them in this two-part doc, which feels at times like an overly long This Morning item.”