Troglodyte may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...
One who lives in a cave. (There are still cave-dwellers in, e.g. Berber communities in Southern Tunisia - see e.g. Matmata.)
A member of a primitive race or tribe of cave-dwellers, a caveman.
A person who lives in seclusion, a hermit.
A person who lives in a slum, a degraded person like the prehistoric or savage cave-dwellers.
In France, one of a group of people who built homes into the faces of cliffs, connected by underground passageways.
The Berbers (also called Imazighen, free men, singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. ... For the New Zealand town, see Matamata The Hotel Sidi Driss, a traditional Berber troglodyte underground building in the village of Matmata, Tunisia. ... A typical depiction of a caveman, as seen in a Minute Maid advertisement. ... Onuphrius lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the late 4th century A hermit (from the Greek erēmos, signifying desert, uninhabited, hence desert-dweller) is a person who lives to some greater or lesser degree in seclusion and/or isolation from society. ... Species See text. ... Binomial name Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775) The Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), also known as the Robust Chimpanzee, is a great ape. ... In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the troglodyte is a reptilian humanoid. ...
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In archaeology, troglodyte can mean a member of a primitive tribe of cave-dwelling people (from the Greek Troglodytai, from trogle, "a hole" and dyein, "to enter.")
Derived from that term, troglodytes are cave-dwelling humanoid monsters in fantasy games such as Dungeons & Dragons (where they look like lizards) and will also appear in related fiction.
More recently Troglodyte is used to describe a reactionary, commonly technophobic, person; i.e.
In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the ``mad lake.'' --Holland.
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.
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.
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