sealioner
sealioner noun: a sealion; one who engages in sealioning.
Noun
sealioner (plural sealioners)
- A sealion; one who engages in sealioning.
- Much like actual interrogators, sealioners bombard the target with question after question, digging and digging until the target either says something stupid or is so pissed off that they react in the extreme.2015 March 24, Sarah Seltzer, “Beyond Mansplaining: A New Lexicon of Misogynist Trolling Behaviors”, in Flavorwire, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2015
- Simply put, a sealioner asks you a lot of questions (whose answers are already available in the public domain) about a statement you’ve made online, but it’s not because they are genuinely curious.2022 July 17, Shephali Bhatt, “It’s called sealioning, and we’re still looking it up”, in mint
Forms of sealioner
| plural | sealioners |
|---|
Origin of sealioner
From sealion + -er.
Questions about sealioner
- What does sealioner mean?
- Sealioner means a sealion; one who engages in sealioning.
- What part of speech is sealioner?
- Sealioner is a noun.
- What is the plural of sealioner?
- The plural of sealioner is sealioners.
Words near sealioner in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sealioner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sealioner.wav.
Cite this entry: “sealioner.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sealioner. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.