Citations:trollface

English citations of trollface, Trollface, and troll face

Noun: "(slang, pejorative) an ugly, unpleasant, or otherwise objectionable person"

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• 1985, Byrna Barclay, The Last Echo, NeWest Press (1985), →ISBN, page 32:

  You brought them home, old trollface, but you did it your own way, not mine.

• 1992, Susan Wojciechowski, Promises to Keep, Knopf (1992), →ISBN, page 3:

  "Hi, dollface," he said to me.

  "Hi, trollface," Tracy answered for both of us.

• 2012, Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis, Berkley Sensation (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  "No. Trust me, when I'm mocking you, you'll know it," she said bitterly. "Like 'Hey, troll face, nice teeth.' Or 'Hey, way to show your courage by murdering helpless old people.'"

• 2014, Holly Hook, Torn, unnumbered page:

  "Hey, I'm sure Mrs. Trollface has some horror lined up for me, too. We can have detention together."

Proper noun: "(Internet slang) an illustration of a face with a cartoonishly wide, maniacal grin..."

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• 2011, "Land of a million memes", The Gateway (University of Alberta), Volume 101, Number 42, 24 March 2011, page 18:

  Thanks to the Trollface meme, those with a secret affinity for the hilarious ways of trolling now have a figure to worship.

• 2011, Trevor Zakov, "Anonymous: Internet bad boys gone good", Ka Leo (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), Volume 106, Issue 45, 7 November 2011, page 6 (image caption):

  The “Trollface” meme, illustrated above, is a mascot of sorts for this behavior.

• 2012, Sean Rockey & Alexander Bevier, "Memes", The Current (Green River Community College), Volume 46, Issue 10, 7 May 2012, page 9:

  People took trollface and pasted it into other comics, whenever a character was either being a pest or generally annoying people.

• 2013, Roger Whitson & Jason Whittaker, William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media, Routledge (2013), →ISBN, page 111:

  The trollface is a visual representation of what someone might look like when engaging in trolling.

• 2014, Luke Garner, "The interaction dissatisfaction", Talk Business, July 2014, page 72:

  Ranging from grumpy cat - a cat whose grumpy face comes with pessimistic quips - to trollface, which is used when you are messing with someone for the fun of it or "trolling," the trend shows no sign of going away any time soon.

• 2015, Mitchell R. Haney, "The Community of Sanity in the Age of the Meme", in Social Media and Living Well (eds. Berrin A. Beasley & Mitchell R. Haney), Lexington Books (2015), →ISBN, page 74:

  There are the likes of Annoying Facebook Girl, Angry Cat, Trollface, Bad Luck Brian, and others that have been or remain ubiquitous in social media.

• 2015, Whitney Phillips, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture, MIT Press (2015), →ISBN, page 137:

  As memes became increasingly prominent, so too did many aspects of trolling culture, to the point that the existence of memes (even visibly trollish memes like the ubiquitous “you mad bro?” trollface comic) no longer guaranteed the existence of trolls.