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trollfeeding

trollfeeding noun: the practice of feeding the troll. Also the present participle and gerund of trollfeed.

Noun

trollfeeding (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) The practice of feeding the troll.
    • The person you are replying to is merely taking whatever position will get the biggest response. Anything Alan Hicks posts will be disagreed with, no matter how reasonable or correcty it is. Those who persist in the practice of trollfeeding are in danger of being killfiled.2004 July 6, Alan Macon, “Re: Measuring the speed of Linux distributions”, in alt.os.linux.slackware (Usenet)

Also used as

trollfeeding is also the present participle and gerund of trollfeed.

Origin of trollfeeding

From troll (“person who makes or posts inflammatory statements in an attempt to lure others into combative argument”) + feed. See feed the troll.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about trollfeeding

What does trollfeeding mean?
Trollfeeding means the practice of feeding the troll.
What part of speech is trollfeeding?
Trollfeeding is a noun.

Words near trollfeeding in the dictionary

  1. trollface
  2. trollfaces
  3. trollfed
  4. trollfeed
  5. trollfeeder
  6. trollfeeding
  7. trollfeeds
  8. trollfic
  9. trollfics
  10. trollfolk
  11. Trollhättan

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