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| 5 results for wombat | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Wombat \Wom"bat\, n. [From the native name, womback, wombach, in Australia.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus {Phascolomys}, especially the common species ({P. ursinus}). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots. | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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WOMBAT /wom'bat/ adj. [acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] Applied to problems which are both profoundly {uninteresting} in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as `wrestling with a wombat'. See also {crawling horror}, {SMOP}. Also note the rather different usage as a metasyntactic variable in {{Commonwealth Hackish}}. Users of the PDP-11 database program DATATRIEVE adopted the wombat as their notional mascot; the program's help file responded to "HELP WOMBAT" with factual information about Real World wombats. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time. Problems which are both profoundly {uninteresting} in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as "wrestling with a wombat". See also {crawling horror}, {SMOP}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-10) | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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wombat 1. Hackish}. 2. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-10) | |
