meaning of troglodyte

1. One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.
2. An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
3. The wren.
4. troglodyte 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]
5. someone who dwells in a cave

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