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troglodyte n. 穴居人;隐士 穴居人;隐士 troglodyte n 1: one who lives in solitude [synonym: {hermit}, {recluse}, {solitary}, {solitudinarian}, {troglodyte}] 2: someone who lives in a cave [synonym: {caveman}, {cave man}, {cave dweller}, {troglodyte}] 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] 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 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)
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