trolling

«trolling» in Mova's school dictionary: Posting rude, mean or upsetting messages on the internet… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (trolling); verb form of «troll» (troll, trolls, trolled, trolling)

meaning for a pupil

1) (online) Posting rude, mean or upsetting messages on the internet on purpose, to make people angry or to get attention. tree →

2) (fishing) Fishing by pulling a baited line behind a slowly moving boat. tree →

3) (informal) Teasing someone as a joke: «I'm just trolling you». tree →

sense in the lessons

Online-safety lessons: trolling is a kind of cyberbullying; the advice is not to reply, block, report and tell an adult. Among friends, «trolling» can be playful teasing, but it can hurt. In fishing, trolling is a normal method. Phrases: «internet trolling», «stop trolling», «don't feed the trolls».

examples

• Trolling people online is a form of bullying. tree →
• If someone is trolling you, don't reply – block and report them. tree →
• He was trolling the comments with nasty messages. tree →
• «Are you trolling me?» she laughed when I said school was cancelled. tree →
• We went trolling for salmon from Uncle Jim's boat. tree →
• The website removed accounts for trolling. tree →

note

A «troll» online is a person who trolls; in stories, a troll is a monster under a bridge. Different origins: the fishing «troll» and the monster are different words. «Don't feed the trolls» means don't give them the reaction they want.

In the corpora

• Trolling means sending many cruel messages online; you can disagree strongly with someone without abusing them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «trolling» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.