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trollfeeding en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From troll (“person who makes or posts inflammatory statements in an attempt to lure others into combative argument”) + feed. See feed the troll.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, uncountable) The practice of feeding the troll.
    • The person you are replying to is merely taking whatever position will get the biggest response. Anything Alan Hicks posts will be disagreed with, no matter how reasonable or correcty it is. Those who persist in the practice of trollfeeding are in danger of being killfiled. 2004 July 6, Alan Macon, “Re: Measuring the speed of Linux distributions”, in alt.os.linux.slackware (Usenet):

Relateds

troll feeding · troll-feeding

trollfeeding en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of trollfeed
    form of trollfeed