Troglodyte
noun
1.
a prehistoric cave dweller.
2.
a person of degraded, primitive, or brutal character.
3.
a person living in seclusion.
4.
a person unacquainted with affairs of the world.
5.
an animal living underground.
noun
1.
a cave dweller, esp one of the prehistoric peoples thought to have lived in caves
2.
(informal) a person who lives alone and appears eccentric
jargon
(Commodore) 1. A hacker who never leaves his cubicle. 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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