Home › Words › P › prollerprollerproller means A prowler; a thief.EtymologyFrom proll + -er.nounA prowler; a thief.e.g.“There is argued in your sight A worth that works not men for benefit, Like prollers or impostors; of which crew, The gentle black earth feeds not up a few” — 1614–1615, Homer, “The Eleventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615,Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).