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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trolling/#m1)

2) (fishing) Fishing by pulling a baited line behind a slowly moving boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trolling/#m2)

3) (informal) Teasing someone as a joke: «I'm just trolling you». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trolling/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trolling/#x1)
- If someone is trolling you, don't reply – block and report them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trolling/#x2)
- He was trolling the comments with nasty messages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trolling/#x3)
- «Are you trolling me?» she laughed when I said school was cancelled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trolling/#x4)
- We went trolling for salmon from Uncle Jim's boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trolling/#x5)
- The website removed accounts for trolling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trolling/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «trolling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trolling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.