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 Definitions for wombat: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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wombat
n : burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size
of a badger
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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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)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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wombat
1. A metasyntactic variable in {Commonwealth
Hackish}.
2. wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)
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