Wombat
noun
1.
any of several stocky, burrowing, herbivorous marsupials of the family Vombatidae, of Australia, about the size of a badger.
noun
1.
any of various burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials, esp Vombatus ursinus, constituting the family Vombatidae and having short limbs, a heavy body, and coarse dense fur
woman
Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time.
Problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as “wrestling with a wombat”.
See also crawling horror, SMOP.
[Jargon File]
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1. A metasyntactic variable in Commonwealth Hackish.
2. wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk.
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- Wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk
computer (Named after the Australian marsupial, vombatus ursinus). The Internet host from which this dictionary was originally served. IP address 146.169.22.42. Formerly a SPARCstation ELC. Kindly provided by the Computing Department, Imperial College, London. Replaced by foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk (a Linux box}) in June 1999. Alias foldoc.org added 2000-07-18, courtesy of Karl O. Pinc. (2000-10-09)
- Womb-to-tomb
[woom-tuh-toom] /ˈwum təˈtum/ adjective, Chiefly British. 1. extending from prebirth to death: said especially of care under the National Health Service.
- Women
noun 1. plural of woman. noun, plural women [wim-in] /ˈwɪm ɪn/ (Show IPA) 1. the female human being, as distinguished from a girl or a man. 2. an adult female person. 3. a female attendant to a lady of rank. 4. a wife. 5. the nature, characteristics, or feelings often attributed to women; womanliness. 6. […]
- Women-at-point-sur
[sur] /sɜr/ noun 1. a narrative poem (1927) by Robinson Jeffers.
- Womenfolk
noun, (used with a plural verb) 1. women in general; all women. 2. a particular group of women. plural noun 1. women collectively 2. a group of women, esp the female members of one’s family