Troglodyte

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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, or cave
        man. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.


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              In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the
              hurtful water it beareth called the "mad lake."
                                                    --Holland.
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     2. (Zool.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
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     3. (Zool.) The wren.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  troglodyte
       n 1: one who lives in solitude [syn: {hermit}, {recluse}, {solitary},
             {solitudinarian}]
       2: someone who dwells in a cave [syn: {caveman}, {cave man}, {cave
          dweller}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "troglodyte":
     Bronze Age man, Goth, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Neanderthal,
     Stone Age man, aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, animal,
     antediluvian, anthropoid, ape-man, autochthon, barbarian, brute,
     bushman, cave dweller, caveman, fossil man, hominid, humanoid,
     man of old, missing link, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman,
     primate, primitive, protohuman, savage
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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 (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  troglodyte
       
           (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 {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)
       
       

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  TROGLODYTE, n.  Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic
  period, after the Tree and before the Flat.  A famous community of
  troglodytes dwelt with David in the Cave of Adullam.  The colony
  consisted of "every one that was in distress, and every one that was
  in debt, and every one that was discontented" -- in brief, all the
  Socialists of Judah.