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De - Pt| English Dictionary: troglodyte | by the DICT Development Group |
| 4 results for troglodyte | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Troglodyte \Trog"lo*dyte\, n. [L. troglodytae, pl., Gr. [?] one who creeps into holes; [?] a hole, cavern (fr. [?] to gnaw) + [?] enter: cf. F. troglodyte.] 1. (Ethnol.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes. In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the [bd]mad lake.[b8] --Holland. 2. (Zo[94]l.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The wren. | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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troglodyte n. [Commodore] 1. A hacker who never leaves his cubicle. The term `gnoll' (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported. 2. A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment. The combination `ITS troglodyte' was flung around some during the Usenet and email wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the Jargon File; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with pride. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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troglodyte The term "Gnoll" (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported. 2. A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment. The combination "ITS troglodyte" was flung around some during the {Usenet} and {e-mail} wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the {Jargon File}; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with pride. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-11) | |
