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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-17-2/
- Published: 2019-08-15T18:15:22.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-15T09:38:49.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

troglodyte (noun) – 1\. (a) A member of a fabulous or prehistoric race of people that lived in caves, dens, or holes.  
(b) A person considered to be reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish.  
2\. (a) A nonhuman ape. Not in scientific use.  
(b) An animal that lives underground, as an ant or a worm. Not in scientific use.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/troglodyte?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : “Cave-dweller,” 1550s, from Middle French troglodyte and directly from Latin troglodytae (plural), from Greek troglodytes “cave-dweller, cave-man” (in reference to tribes identified as living in various places by ancient writers; by Herodotus on the African coast of the Red Sea), literally “one who creeps into holes,” from trogle “hole, mouse-hole” (from trogein “to gnaw, nibble, munch;”) + dyein “go in, dive in”.