different between trollery vs troller

English

Etymology

troll +? -ery

Noun

trollery (uncountable)

1. (Internet slang, informal) Online behavior that is deliberately provocative or disruptive.
   • 2009, Clive Thomspon, "Clive Thompson on the Taming of Comment Trolls", Wired, 23 March 2009:

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

English

Etymology

troll +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??l?(?)

Noun

troller (plural trollers)

1. One who fishes by trolling.
2. An engine-powered fishing boat, used for moving slowly while fishing lines drag behind, sometimes able to sail in shallow water.
3. (Internet) A troll; a user who maliciously provokes others.

See also

• trawler

French

Etymology

From Old French troller, of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *truzl?n? (“to lumber”), which is probably related to *trudan? (“to tread, step on”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.le/

Verb

troller

1. (hunting) To wander unsystematically about, looking for game.
2. (Internet) To troll

Conjugation

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) , “tredan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 521