Neandertal

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Neandertal
       adj 1: relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man;
              "Neanderthal skull" [syn: {Neanderthal}, {Neanderthalian}]
       2: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or
          appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish
          manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband";


          "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn: {boorish},
           {loutish}, {neanderthal}, {oafish}, {swinish}]
       n : extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and
           western Asia [syn: {Neandertal man}, {Neanderthal man}, {Neanderthal},
            {Homo sapiens neanderthalensis}]