caveman
Noun
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Noun
caveman (plural cavemen)
- An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.
- The political cartoon showed the politician as a caveman, clubbing the budget depicted as a mammoth.
- The creators of this nutrition plan believe that cavemen and cavewomen were lean and healthy because of the all-natural foods they ate.
- 2010, Terence A. Shimp, Advertising, Promotion, and Other Aspects of Integrated Marketing Communications, Cengage Learning, 8th Edition, page 154 ↗,
- And who could forget those ads that featured sophisticated cavemen who were insulted—in a parody on political correctness—by “insensitive” offenders who implied that some action was “so easy, a caveman could do it.”
- (informal, figuratively, pejorative) A brutish or savage person.
- The football squad was made up of cavemen who were responsible for trashing many a locker room.
- (informal, figuratively, pejorative) A man with old-fashioned or backward opinions, particularly with regard to women.
- Old Sven is a bit of a caveman; he figures giving women the right to vote was a bad idea.
- 2008, David E. Clarke, Cinderella Meets the Caveman: Stop the Boredom in Your Marriage and Jump, page 159 ↗,
- You think your Caveman is always chasing you for sex. Well, he is.
- (early humans or related species) hominid, hominin, neanderthal, troglodyte
- (brutish or savage person) boor, knuckle dragger, lout, savage, thug, troglodyte
- (man with regressive opinions) chauvinist
- French: homme des cavernes
- German: Höhlenmensch
- Italian: cavernicolo, troglodita
- Portuguese: cavernícola, homem das cavernas
- Russian: пеще́рный челове́к
- Spanish: cavernícola, hombre de las cavernas, troglodita, cavernario, hombre prehistórico
- Portuguese: homem das cavernas
- Portuguese: homem das cavernas
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