troglodyte

5 definitions found

troglodyte - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the
              hurtful water it beareth called the "mad lake."
                                                    --Holland.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Zool.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Zool.) The wren.
        [1913 Webster]

troglodyte - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

troglodyte - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  troglodyte
  
     <jargon> (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)
  

troglodyte - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.
  

troglodyte - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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