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1. (n.) wombat
any of several stocky, burrowing, herbivorous marsupials of the family Vombatidae, of Australia, about the size of a badger.
Etymology: (1790–1800; < Dharuk)
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1. (noun) wombat
burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger
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1. (noun) wombat
any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots
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1. wombat
[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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