troglodytic

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  1. Of or pertaining to the troglodytes or cave-dwellers; relating to or having the habits of the cave-dwellers. The dwelling-places or the burial vaults of a troglodytic tribe closely akin to the Guanches of the Canaries. The Academy, No. 891, p. 370.

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  • At the other, there is Kentucky, who is erudite, funny and far removed from the troglodytic gear-humper of popular myth - though you suspect he would no more understand a Raf Simons shirt with an attached scarf than he would Old Norse. —  The Guardian World News
  • Inhabited since pre-historic times, La-Roque-Gageac, lies under troglodytic forts, which you can visit (although we did not). —  French Kitchen in America
  • My only answer would be its lack of electoral vote firepower athwart the troglodytic idiocy of the masses voting in Chicago and Detroit. —  The Minority Report -
  • It's quick, easy and fun for the obsessive or the troglodytic. —  BTDF
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  1. from Latin troglodyticus, from Greek τρωγλοδυτικός, pertaining to a cave-dweller, from τρωγλοδύτης, a cave-dweller, troglodyte: see troglodyte.
 

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