demon vs troll

demon

noun
  • An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil. 

  • A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity. 

  • A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse. 

  • A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being. 

  • A person's fears or anxieties. 

  • Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. 

  • A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child. 

  • A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do. 

  • A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw. 

  • A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics. 

  • Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes. 

  • A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US. 

troll

noun
  • A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges. 

  • An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line. 

  • The act of moving round; routine; repetition. 

  • A song whose parts are sung in succession; a catch; a round. 

  • An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences. 

  • A person who posts or says inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages to provoke others on the Internet for their own personal amusement or to manipulate others' perception. 

  • Optical ejections from the top of the electrically active core regions of thunderstorms that are red in color that seem to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward toward the cloud tops. 

verb
  • To trundle, to roll from side to side. 

  • To draw someone or something out, to entice, to lure as if with trailing bait. 

  • To saunter. 

  • To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling; to lure fish with bait. 

  • To fish in; to try to catch fish from. 

  • To post or make inflammatory or insincere statements so as to attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate others' perception, especially in an online community or discussion. 

  • To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner. 

  • To angle for with a trolling line, or with a hook drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure. 

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