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Grammar : Noun
Spell : trohl
Phonetic Transcription : troʊl

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Définition of troll

Origin :
  • late 14c., "to go about, stroll," later (early 15c.) "roll from side to side, trundle," from Old French troller, a hunting term, "wander, to go in quest of game without purpose," from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German trollen "to walk with short steps"), from Proto-Germanic *truzlanan.
  • Sense of "sing in a full, rolling voice" (first attested 1570s) and that of "fish with a moving line" (c.1600) are both extended technical applications of the general sense of "roll, trundle," the latter perhaps confused with trail or trawl. Figurative sense of "to draw on as with a moving bait, entice, allure" is from 1560s. Meaning "to cruise in search of sexual encounters" is recorded from 1967, originally in homosexual slang.
  • noun elf
Example sentences :
  • Here is Arnold of Sowley will troll as good a stave as any man in the Company.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • If indeed there was a troll here, and not some harmless fisherman.
  • Extract from : « The Valor of Cappen Varra » by Poul William Anderson
  • "Can and will, my girl," said the troll, picking up a bone to throw at her.
  • Extract from : « The Valor of Cappen Varra » by Poul William Anderson
  • The troll came back from a tunnel after he finished, and said curtly: "This way."
  • Extract from : « The Valor of Cappen Varra » by Poul William Anderson
  • One breath of fear, one moment's doubt, and the troll is free to rend ye.
  • Extract from : « The Valor of Cappen Varra » by Poul William Anderson
  • When you promised to come back in ten years, like a troll, and fetch me!
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 18, 1893 » by Various
  • But there is nothing of the troll about me now I have married Mrs. Solness.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 18, 1893 » by Various
  • Yes, I certainly think that then you went on exactly like a troll.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 18, 1893 » by Various
  • Ling had seemed so hairy, so misshapen, like a troll out of Gothic legends.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Asteroid » by Manly Wade Wellman
  • If they trusted a troll line to his baby hands, he was in a state of beatitude.
  • Extract from : « The Cursed Patois » by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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