Familiar vs Troll - What's the difference?
familiar | troll |
Known to one.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Acquainted.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 Intimate or friendly.
* Shakespeare
Inappropriately intimate or friendly.
Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
* Byron
(obsolete) A member of one's family or household.
(obsolete) A close friend.
*, II.i.4.2:
An attendant spirit, often in animal form.
(fantasy) A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (slang) An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences.
(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.
To saunter.
To trundle, to roll from side to side.
(figuratively) To draw someone or something out, to entice, to lure as if with trailing bait.
(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.
* Bancroft
To angle for with a trolling line, or with a hook drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
To fish in; to try to catch fish from.
* Goldsmith
(slang) To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner, to (originally homosexual slang).
(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
* 1993 October 11, “danny burstein” (username), “
(internet slang) By extension, to incite anger (including outside of an internet context); to provoke, harass or annoy.
* 1994 March 8, “Robert Royar” (username), “
An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line.
(colloquial) A person who provokes others (chiefly on the Internet) for their own personal amusement or to cause disruption.
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To move circularly; to roll; to turn.
* Milton
(obsolete) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
* Gammer Gurton's Needle
* Sir Walter Scott
(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.
* Shakespeare
* Hudibras
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
A song whose parts are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
* Professor Wilson
(obsolete) A trolley.
As an adjective familiar
is familial.As a noun troll is
ogre.familiar
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
- Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar.
- (Camden)
- familiar feuds
Synonyms
* (acquainted) acquainted * close, friendly, intimate, personal * (inappropriately intimate or friendly) cheeky, fresh, impudentAntonyms
* (known to one) unfamiliar, unknown * (acquainted) unacquainted * (intimate) cold, cool, distant, impersonal, standoffish, unfriendlyDerived terms
* overfamiliar * familiarity * familiarlyNoun
(en noun)- a friend of mine, that finding a receipt in Brassavola, would needs take hellebore in substance, and try it on his own person; but had not some of his familiars come to visit him by chance, he had by his indiscretion hazarded himself; many such I have observed.
- The witch’s familiar was a black cat.
External links
* ----troll
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), (etyl) or (etyl) troll, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=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 .}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) ; fishing sense possibly influenced by trawl and/or trailVerb
(en verb)- 1906': ''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.'' — ,
"Fools and Their Money: Some After-Claps of Frenzied Finance"
, ''Everybody's Magazine'' ' XIV (5) May 1906, p. 690
- Their young men trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish.
- With patient angle trolls the finny deep.
- His favorite place to troll is that bar on 42nd street.
- I am trolling for custom, said the actress to the bishop.
I trolled, and no one bit!”, in alt.folklore.urban, Usenet
OK, here's more on trolling”, in comp.edu.composition, Usenet :
- trolling isn't aimed at newbies. It's aimed at self-important people
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* concern troll * feed the troll * patent troll * troll-friendlyEtymology 3
From (etyl) trollen, .Verb
(en verb)- to dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye
- Then doth she troll to the bowl.
- Troll the brown bowl.
- Will you troll the catch?
- His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, / By wide-mouthed mortal trolled aloud.
- Troll the ancient Yuletide carol. Fa la la la la la la la la.
- 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:
Noun
(en noun)- (Burke)
- Thence the catch and troll , while "Laughter, holding both his sides," sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life.