Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a fabulous or prehistoric race of people that lived in caves, dens, or holes.
- noun A person considered to be reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish.
- noun A nonhuman ape. Not in scientific use.
- noun An animal that lives underground, as an ant or a worm. Not in scientific use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inhabiting caverns; cavedwelling; cavernicolous; spelæan; troglodytic: specifically noting human beings, apes, and birds.
- noun A cave-dweller; a caveman; one who lives in a naturally formed cavity in the rocks, or, by extension, one who has his abode in a dwelling-place of that kind, whether constructed by enlarging a natural cave or by making an entirely new excavation.
- noun Hence, one living in seclusion; one unacquainted with the affairs of the world.
- noun In mammalogy, an anthropoid ape of the genus Troglodytes, as the chimpanzee or the gorilla, especially the former, which was earlier known to naturalists and was called
Simia troglodytes . - noun In ornithology, a wren of the genus Troglodytes or family Troglodytldæ. The term is a misnomer, since no wrens live in caves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
- noun (Zoöl.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
- noun (Zoöl.) The wren.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of a
supposed prehistoric race that lived incaves orholes , acaveman . - noun by extension Anything that lives
underground . - noun A
reclusive ,reactionary orout-of-date person , especially ifbrutish . - noun The
wren , Troglodytes troglodytes. - noun computing A person who chooses not to keep up-to-date with the latest
software andhardware .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who lives in a cave
- noun one who lives in solitude
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is technology utterly out of functional scale in turn pointing a finger with the label troglodyte if you even suggest alternatives.
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He chose the word troglodyte with deliberation; it comes from a Greek word meaning cave dweller.
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However, if someone linked to that something, even if that someone were a scum-sucking troglodyte from the slime-pits of Hell (or the Hollywood Hills, whichever), I couldn’t do jack-all squat.
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Revenant: The difference between a gentleman and a "troglodyte" isn't that the former respects women and the latter doesn't.
Guilt-tripping parents into getting plastic surgery for their kids.
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The difference between a gentleman and a "troglodyte" isn't that the former respects women and the latter doesn't.
Guilt-tripping parents into getting plastic surgery for their kids.
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Scott is an erstwhile school levy volunteer who last February called me a "troglodyte" for being the only man in town bold enough to raise questions about the levy in the media.
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For example, for the authorities on English etymology 'troglodyte' is adapted from the Latin and first attested in the middle of the sixteenth century - an example, one might be tempted to conclude, of the well-known re-birth of scientific interest in many fields that characterized this period.
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Instead he has responded by calling the prelate a "troglodyte," and calling upon him to do penance for his remarks, leading to a tit for tat exchange that has lasted for more than two weeks.
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The president usually offered these comments up as part of some kind of troglodyte effort to set his toadies straight on a matter of ethnic or cultural policy.
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That night we stayed in the town of Matmata, famed for its underground "troglodyte" homes.
chained_bear commented on the word troglodyte
What a fine, fine word!
October 23, 2007
john commented on the word troglodyte
Which begat a fine, fine band.
October 23, 2007
donricklin commented on the word troglodyte
Delicatessen is full of them!
October 11, 2008
Telofy commented on the word troglodyte
“Basically, John ［McCain］ is a technological troglodyte, and proud of it.”
—Reed Hundt (former FCC chairman)
Found here.
January 28, 2010