trollとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Norwegian or Swedish troll or Danish trold, from Old Norse trǫll (“witch, mage, conjurer”) (compare Icelandic tröll), related to Middle High German trolle (“spook, wraith, monster, ogre”).^[1] From Proto-Germanic *truzlą (“a supernatural being; demon; fiend; giant; monster”). Norwegian fortrylle (“to bewitch”), Norwegian and Danish trylle (“to conjure”) and Swedish trolla (“to conjure”). Doublet of droll.

名詞

troll (複数形 trolls)

1. (fantasy) A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges. [from early 17th c.]
   • 1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, page 7:

     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.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 150:

     "Will you have a sausage, pussy?" said one of the trolls, and threw a hot frog right into the bear's jaw.

   • 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, page 3:

     In these manuscripts we are again in an atmosphere of eotens and trolls, there are traces of even older terrors, when the first Teuton settlers in Europe struggled with the aborigines who lived in caves[.]

   • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

2. (slang) An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences.
   • 2007, David Lubar, Hidden Talents:

     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.

   • 2009, Judy Chicago, Sarah Quinton, Jenni Sorkin, When Women Rule the World: Judy Chicago in Thread:

     In this work, the abject object - a sculpture of a fat, hairy woman - is heartbreakingly comforted by a text that claims the artist's love and desire to protect the 'ugly' troll.

   • 2010, Linda Francis Lee, The Devil in the Junior League:

     She sulked as we returned downstairs, her own more colorful clothes stuffed into her bright green shoulder bag. “I just wish I didn't have to dress like such a troll.”

   • 2011, R.E. Donald, Ice on the Grapevine:

     Sharon had no desire to talk to Alora Magee, but she was happy to get out of her cell and away from that disgusting troll and her irritating voice.

   • 2012, James Classi, Heatseeker, page 26:

     Edwin Baer was an ugly troll of a man. He stood just about five feet, six inches and maybe weighed 140 pounds soaking wet.

   • 2012, Thomas Appleby, Life in the Harsh Lane: The Nine Lives, Mishaps, and Adventures of a No-body, page 186:

     I liked one of the girls, Sarah, but her mate, the troll, was a total bitch from hell, probably because guys only fancied Sarah, so we hung out whilst the troll was obviously scheming how to steal my money.

   • 2014, Rock Rampant, Mauve Flush, page 280:

     So if you're hoping to get a fuck, you'll be out of luck, Hideous hag, You are an ugly troll,

3. (astronomy, meteorology) Optical ejections from the top of the electrically active core regions of thunderstorms that are red in color that seem to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward toward the cloud tops.

派生語

• patent troll
• trolless
• trollish, trollishly, trollishness
• trolllike

語源 2

From Middle English trollen (“to go about, stroll, roll from side to side”), from Old French troller (“to quest, to wander”) (French trôler), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *truzlōną (“to lumber”), which is probably related to *trudaną (“to tread, step on”). Related to Middle High German trollen (“to stroll”), Middle Low German drullen (“to stroll”).

Fishing sense possibly influenced by trawl and/or trail; internet sense influenced by Etymology 1.

動詞

troll (三人称単数 現在形 trolls, 現在分詞 trolling, 過去形および過去分詞形 trolled)

1. (intransitive) To saunter. [from late 14th c.]
2. (intransitive) To trundle, to roll from side to side. [from early 15th c.]
3. (transitive, figuratively) To draw someone or something out, to entice, to lure as if with trailing bait. [from the 1500s]
   • 1906, Thomas William Lawson, “Fools and Their Money: Some After-Claps of Frenzied Finance”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume XIV, number 5, page 690:

     It was necessary to troll them along two years with the hope of employing their usual methods, in order to get them to a place too far from their starting-point for retreat.

4. (intransitive, fishing, by extension) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling; to lure fish with bait. [from circa 1600]
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

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

5. (transitive) To angle for with a trolling line, or with a hook drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 153:

     My flies alone disturbed the placid waters. A half-grown-up lad, who was standing behind me on the bank, advised me to "troll with bait" — a cluster of worms fastened to the hook, which is dragged in jerks over the surface of the water — and offered to find the bait for me.

6. (transitive) To fish in; to try to catch fish from.
   • 1766 March, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], OCLC 938500648:

     With patient angle trolls the finny deep.

7. (slang, intransitive) To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner. [from 20th c.]

   Synonym: cruise

   He spends most of his waking hours trolling on WIRE.

8. (intransitive, Internet slang) (to post inflammatory material so as) to attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment and/or gratuitous disruption, especially in an online community or discussion [from late 20th c.]
   • 1993 October 11, “danny burstein” (username), “I trolled, and no one bit!”, in alt.folklore.urban, Usenet
9. (transitive, originally Internet slang, by extension) To incite anger (including outside of an Internet context); to provoke, harass or annoy.
   • 1994 March 8, “Robert Royar” (username), “OK, here's more on trolling”, in comp.edu.composition, Usenet:

     trolling isn't aimed at newbies. It's aimed at self-important people

   • 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 384:

     I thought Iran was doing a better job trolling Trump than he was doing in return.

名詞

troll (複数形 trolls)

1. An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line. [from circa 1600]
3. (Internet slang) A person who provokes others (chiefly on the Internet) for their own personal amusement or to cause disruption. [from late 20th c.]

   Coordinate term: griefer

   Hyponym: keyboard warrior

   • 2014 December 19, “Friday 2 January's best TV”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2016 June 8, Quentin Hardy, “How Gaming Helped Launch the Attack of the Internet Trolls”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     From there, attacking people head-on — though almost always cloaked in anonymity — wasn’t a big leap. And so much more on the internet became like a game, only the score consisted of attention, outrage or approval from like-minded trolls.

   • 2018 October 30, David Streitfeld, “Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

     It was the place you went, shrouded in anonymity, for pornography, hard-core racism, revenge porn, Nazi cheerleading, Jew-baiting, creepshots, fat-shaming, mindless anarchy and pictures of dead kids or of women who had been beaten. If anyone bothered to look, Reddit was proof that on the internet, the trolls were in charge.

派生語

語源 3

From Middle English trollen, trollin (“to walk, wander”). Cognate with Low German trullen (“to troll”).

動詞

troll (三人称単数 現在形 trolls, 現在分詞 trolling, 過去形および過去分詞形 trolled)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To move circularly; to roll; to turn. [from the 15th c.]
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Of lustful apperence, to sing, to dance,
     To dress, and troule the Tongue, and roule the Eye.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
   • c. 1553, author unknown, Gammer Gurton's Needle

     Then doth she troll to the bowl.

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:

     Troll the brown bowl.

3. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly, freely or in a carefree way. [from the 16th c.]
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii^[4]:

     […] Will you troll the catch / You taught me but whilere?

   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, OCLC 963614346:

     His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, / By wide-mouthed mortal trolled aloud.

   • 1862, Thomas Oliphant, Nos Galan:

     Troul the ancient Christmas carol.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones: […]

名詞

troll (複数形 trolls)

1. The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     The troll of their categorical table might have informed them that there was something else in the intellectual world besides substance and quantity.

2. A song whose parts are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
   • 1845, John Wilson, The genius and character of Burns

     Thence the catch and troll, while "Laughter, holding both his sides," sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life.

3. (obsolete) A trolley.

派生語

• troll plate

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