Troll vs Meme - What's the difference?
troll | meme |
(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.
English 4chan slang
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Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
*1976 , (Richard Dawkins), The Selfish Gene :
*:Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
*2002 , Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness , p. 242:
*:Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.
(Internet, slang) Something that is copied and circulated online with slight adaptions, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc. A meme can be a photo or artwork, usually with text, often codified with a distinct white block lettering text on the image. If a particular, standardized image is used, there is a protocol to how it should be used
* 2005 , "darklily", OT: Livejournal'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''soc.sexuality.general )
*2012 , Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing , 2nd edition:
*:The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.
*2013 , The Guardian , (headline), 8 Feb 2013:
*:Harlem Shake meme : the new Gangnam Style?
As nouns the difference between troll and meme
is that troll is a supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges while meme is any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.As a verb troll
is to saunter.As a proper noun Troll
is a native or resident of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.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.
Derived terms
* troll plateReferences
meme
English
(wikipedia meme)Noun
(en noun)- I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.
