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trollery

trollery noun: online behavior that is deliberately provocative or disruptive.

Noun

trollery (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) 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.2009 March 23, Clive Thomspon, “Clive Thompson on the Taming of Comment Trolls”, in Wired

Origin of trollery

From troll + -ery.

Questions about trollery

What does trollery mean?
Trollery means online behavior that is deliberately provocative or disruptive.
What part of speech is trollery?
Trollery is a noun.

Words near trollery in the dictionary

  1. trollee
  2. trollees
  3. trolleite
  4. troller
  5. trollers
  6. trollery
  7. trolless
  8. trollesses
  9. trollest
  10. trolleth
  11. trollette

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