Definition: troglodyte

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

troglodyte
     n 1: one who lives in solitude [syn: hermit, recluse, solitary,
           solitudinarian]
     2: someone who dwells in a cave [syn: caveman, cave man, cave
        dweller]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Troglodyte \Trog"lo*dyte\, n. [L. troglodytae, pl., Gr. ? one
   who creeps into holes; ? a hole, cavern (fr. ? to gnaw) + ?
   enter: cf. F. troglodyte.]
   1. (Ethnol.) 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.

            In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the
            hurtful water it beareth called the ``mad lake.''
                                                  --Holland.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.

   3. (Zo["o]l.) The wren.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

troglodyte

   <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)

Source: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) 

troglodyte n. [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 email
   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.

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) 

TROGLODYTE, n.  Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic
period, after the Tree and before the Flat.  A famous community of
troglodytes dwelt with David in the Cave of Adullam.  The colony
consisted of "every one that was in distress, and every one that was
in debt, and every one that was discontented" -- in brief, all the
Socialists of Judah.