trollery

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noun

Online behavior that is deliberately provocative or disruptive.

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Meanings

nountrollery (uncountable)
  1. InternetuncountableOnline behavior that is deliberately provocative or disruptive.

    Readers can set their filters so they see only comments with high ratings—and trollery effectively vanishes.

    2009 March 23, Clive Thomspon, “Clive Thompson on the Taming of Comment Trolls”, in Wired

Origin

From troll + -ery.

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Cite this entry
APA

trollery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trollery

MLA

“trollery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trollery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trollery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trollery.

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