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wombat
(encz) | wombat,australský vačnatec n: [zoo.] PetrV |
wombat
(encz) | wombat,vombat n: PetrV |
Wombat
(gcide) | Wombat \Wom"bat\, n. [From the native name, womback, wombach, in
Australia.] (Zool.)
Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials
of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species
(Phascolomys ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits,
and feed mostly on roots.
[1913 Webster] |
wombat
(wn) | wombat
n 1: burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size
of a badger |
wombat
(foldoc) | WOMBAT
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]
(1995-03-10)
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wombat
(foldoc) | wombat
1. A metasyntactic variable in {Commonwealth
Hackish}.
2. wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)
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wombat
(jargon) | WOMBAT
/wom'bat/, adj.
[acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] Applied to 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. Also
note the rather different usage as a metasyntactic variable in {
Commonwealth Hackish}.
Users of the PDP-11 database program DATATRIEVE adopted the wombat as
their notional mascot; the program's help file responded to “HELP WOMBAT”
with factual information about Real World wombats.
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wombats
(encz) | wombats,vombati n: Zdeněk Brož |
Wombat
(gcide) | Wombat \Wom"bat\, n. [From the native name, womback, wombach, in
Australia.] (Zool.)
Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials
of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species
(Phascolomys ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits,
and feed mostly on roots.
[1913 Webster] |
wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk
(foldoc) | wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk
(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)
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