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• present tense form of troll (3rd person singular).

trolls

Cultural  

1. In Norse mythology, repulsive dwarfs who lived in caves or other hidden places. They would steal children and property but hated noise. The troll in the children's story “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” for example, lives under a bridge and is enraged when he hears the goats crossing the bridge.

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One can, on the internet, even encounter trolls akin to the golem versions of real people that we see in the film.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

The latest model had a tendency to mention other creatures as well: raccoons, trolls, ogres and pigeons, to be specific.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

“What happened to him was unjust. These trolls came to our city and disrupted our way of life and they attacked him for clickbait purposes,” said Hang, who personally called Hochman about the case.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Takahashi says legal action has "a deterrent effect" on online trolls, many of whom he says are in their teens or early 20s.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

And, at those times, Tristran Thorn's daydreams were strange, guilty fantasies, muddled and odd, of journeys through forests to rescue princesses from palaces, dreams of knights and trolls and mermaids.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman