"trollette" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: trollettes [plural]
Etymology: troll + -ette Etymology templates: {{suf|en|troll|ette|id2=female}} troll + -ette Head templates: {{en-noun}} trollette (plural trollettes)
  1. a female troll Synonyms: trolless Related terms: goblette, ogress, orcess
    Sense id: en-trollette-en-noun-0PMfvi8w Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ette (female)

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "2012, Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence, page 25",
          "text": "I am sure that in some corner of the academic world there hides and intellectual who knows vastly more about these issues than I do and has written 208 published articles about them, which none of us have ever heard of, probably because he writes like a troll, or, not to be sexist, she writes like a troll or trollette.",
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          "ref": "2014, Seven Steps to Activating Your Supernatural Funnybone, page 68",
          "text": "Did you divorce a Troll/Trollette and then find yourself hanging around bridges looking for another mate and what do you find?",
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          "ref": "2015, Love 'n Lies, page 125",
          "text": "Remember Garnet? He found the sweetest trollette in Cochrane. They've set up udner a bridge not too far from me.",
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Grimbeard: Tales of the Last Dwarf, page 173",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, The Nothing to See Here Hotel, page 14",
          "text": "Abe spotted a troll girl (a trollette) doing her laundry in the open mouth of a huge sewer pipe and having a good old sing-song to herself. You guessed it: that troll girl was my great-great-great-granny, Regurgita Glump",
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          "word": "goblette"
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        {
          "word": "ogress"
        },
        {
          "word": "orcess"
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          "ref": "2012, Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence, page 25",
          "text": "I am sure that in some corner of the academic world there hides and intellectual who knows vastly more about these issues than I do and has written 208 published articles about them, which none of us have ever heard of, probably because he writes like a troll, or, not to be sexist, she writes like a troll or trollette.",
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