“She stayed in front of the king, sure that the troll would lunge at her at any moment.”
“Sometimes it is not enough to just ignore the troll, and you may have to resort to banning them.”
troll
(fantasy) A supernaturalbeing of varying size, now especially a grotesquehumanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges. [from early 17th c.]
(astronomy)Opticalejections 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.