troglodyte
IPA: troʊgɫʌdaɪt
noun
- A member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves or holes, a caveman.
- (by extension) Anything that lives underground.
- A reclusive, reactionary or out-of-date person, especially if brutish.
- The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
- (computing) A person who chooses not to keep up-to-date with the latest software and hardware.
Advertisement
Examples of "troglodyte" in Sentences
- He is a dangerous troglodyte.
- He claims himself as a troglodyte.
- In the movie, he acted as a troglodyte.
- This is no better place to be a troglodyte
- Its fame is due to its troglodyte dwellings.
- Troglodytes are the people who live in the caves.
- It was an eye opener for this artistic troglodyte.
- These house troglodytes, bugbears, and carrion crawlers.
- The middle one is a troglodyte part of the former fortress.
- That night we stayed in the town of Matmata, famed for its underground "troglodyte" homes.
- He chose the word troglodyte with deliberation; it comes from a Greek word meaning cave dweller.
- The difference between a gentleman and a "troglodyte" isn't that the former respects women and the latter doesn't.
- Revenant: The difference between a gentleman and a "troglodyte" isn't that the former respects women and the latter doesn't.
- It is technology utterly out of functional scale in turn pointing a finger with the label troglodyte if you even suggest alternatives.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Advertisement
Advertisement