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"Snowden reportedly used high-ranking official's profiles to troll NSA's intranet." trawl?
by Nate75Sanders 13y ago
"Snowden reportedly used high-ranking official's profiles to troll NSA's intranet."
trawl?
- advice4u 13y agoTo troll means to fish. In fact, looking up the definition of "trawl," it means "to troll" http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trawl http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trawl
- Nursie 13y agoI think it's a US thing though. Obviously I know that in US English the word has both meanings, but in the UK a troll is something that hides under a bridge, and the fishing is trawling. Took me a while to figure out the humour inherent in the double meaning when I first came across it (in the 90s)
- prawn 13y agoI always thought trawling involved dragging a net whereas you trolled with a lure (enticing fish out to chase it). e.g., you might trawl for prawns but troll for snook.
- Nursie 13y agoNever heard that in UK english. I just assumed that with an american accent the words sounded the same so people stopped using 'trawl'... I've been wrong before though.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoI can confirm that this is not the case; trawl and troll shouldn't rhyme any more than Paul and pole, tall and toll, fall and foal, etc.
- jrockway 13y agohttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troll http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troll