Troll vs Stalk - What's the difference?
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(fantasy) A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
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, 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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The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
:(Grew)
(lb) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
:(Chaucer)
(label)
#A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
#The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
#The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
(lb) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
(lb) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer.
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*:But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking .
(lb) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.(w)
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(lb) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:[Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, / Pressing to be employed.
:(Shakespeare)
(lb) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:The king"I must stalk ," said he.
*(Michael Drayton) (1563-1631)
*:One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk .
A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
A hunt (of a wild animal).
To walk haughtily.
* Dryden
* Addison
* Mericale
In intransitive terms the difference between troll and stalk
is that troll is to trundle, to roll from side to side while stalk is to walk haughtily.In transitive terms the difference between troll and stalk
is that troll is to fish in; to try to catch fish from while stalk is to (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.WpAs 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
stalk
English
(wikipedia stalk)Etymology 1
From (etyl) stalke, diminutive of stale'' 'ladder upright, stalk', from (etyl) stalu 'wooden upright', from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) stalken, from (etyl) -).Robert K. Barnhart and Sol Steinmetz, eds., ''Chambers Dictionary of Etymology , s.v. "stalk2" (New York: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd., 2006), 1057. Alternate etymology connects (etyl) 'to steal'.Verb
(en verb)Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)Noun
(en noun)References
Etymology 3
1530, 'to walk haughtily', perhaps from (etyl) 'high, lofty, steep, stiff'; see aboveVerb
(en verb)- With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
- Then stalking through the deep, / He fords the ocean.
- I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged.
