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Pauper Trolls
noun – satirical, cultural-political slang
Definition:
A group or subculture of perpetually disgruntled, economically stagnant individuals—often older, embittered, and clinging to nostalgic political slogans (e.g., "Make America Great Again")—who congregate (virtually or metaphorically) under bridges of misinformation, grievance, and lost relevance. Typically resistant to progress, allergic to nuance, and suspicious of facts, they bemoan modern life while ironically using its tech to spread their discontent.
Origin:
Coined humorously by a grandchild observing certain TV personas, the term gained traction as a biting generational critique—“out of the mouths of babes!”—for those stuck in cultural or economic stasis while blaming everyone but themselves.
Example:
"When Grandpa starts ranting about the 'deep state' from his Facebook bunker again, my little cousin whispers, 'Pauper Troll alert!'"
Related terms:
Grievance goblins, MAGA mopers, Boomers under bridges, Keyboard cavemen, Foxhole dwellers
noun – satirical, cultural-political slang
Definition:
A group or subculture of perpetually disgruntled, economically stagnant individuals—often older, embittered, and clinging to nostalgic political slogans (e.g., "Make America Great Again")—who congregate (virtually or metaphorically) under bridges of misinformation, grievance, and lost relevance. Typically resistant to progress, allergic to nuance, and suspicious of facts, they bemoan modern life while ironically using its tech to spread their discontent.
Origin:
Coined humorously by a grandchild observing certain TV personas, the term gained traction as a biting generational critique—“out of the mouths of babes!”—for those stuck in cultural or economic stasis while blaming everyone but themselves.
Example:
"When Grandpa starts ranting about the 'deep state' from his Facebook bunker again, my little cousin whispers, 'Pauper Troll alert!'"
Related terms:
Grievance goblins, MAGA mopers, Boomers under bridges, Keyboard cavemen, Foxhole dwellers
"When Grandpa starts ranting about the 'deep state' from his Facebook bunker again, my little cousin whispers, 'Pauper Trolls alert!'"
by Pen-Dragon June 21, 2025
Get the Pauper Trollsmug. Of or related to the qualities of a good "grandfather".
From the Latin "avos"=grandfather, and the suffix "-inum" = "of, like, having the qualities of"
From the Latin "avos"=grandfather, and the suffix "-inum" = "of, like, having the qualities of"
The teacher brought his ripened avosine skills into play by holding and coddling the unwed-mother-student's restive baby while she took her final exam.
by Pen-Dragon March 21, 2024
Get the Avosinemug. That part of a greater whole of anything which you especially, particularly favor.
Comes from the Latin "quod libel" -- What I like!
Comes from the Latin "quod libel" -- What I like!
-- I couldn't wait for that scene in "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" when the Italian officer asks, "Where is the fire?"
-- Out grandkids always dug out their quoddly-bits of melted M&Ms from the muffins their mother had made, leaving
behind clumps of miniscule-crater-pitted, uneaten muffin-cake.
-- There's that one part in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, toward the end of the second-third of the melody -- THAT's my quoddly-bit.... get transported away in a flood of all-body tingling goosebumps. Wow!
-- Out grandkids always dug out their quoddly-bits of melted M&Ms from the muffins their mother had made, leaving
behind clumps of miniscule-crater-pitted, uneaten muffin-cake.
-- There's that one part in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, toward the end of the second-third of the melody -- THAT's my quoddly-bit.... get transported away in a flood of all-body tingling goosebumps. Wow!
by Pen-Dragon April 20, 2023
Get the quoddly-bitmug. Any situation that moves into a state of chaos, disorder, pandemonium, relatively rapidly, essentially totally diametrically opposite to what one had expected or imagined.
I thought that feeding my infant granddaughter her baby mush was going to be a cakewalk.
But immediately after the first spoon, when Sally knocked the full utensil and its contents out of my hand and onto the wall, the pap landing on everyone and everything, I knew we were a Bay of Pigs -- Bahía de los Cerdos, Bahía de los Cochinos situation.
But immediately after the first spoon, when Sally knocked the full utensil and its contents out of my hand and onto the wall, the pap landing on everyone and everything, I knew we were a Bay of Pigs -- Bahía de los Cerdos, Bahía de los Cochinos situation.
by Pen-Dragon December 15, 2021
Get the Bay of Pigs -- Bahía de los Cerdos, Bahía de los Cochinosmug.