cave man

cave man
noun
someone who lives in a cave
Syn: ↑caveman, ↑cave dweller, ↑troglodyte
Hypernyms: ↑primitive, ↑primitive person

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1. a cave dweller, esp. of the Stone Age.
2. a man who behaves in a rough, primitive manner, esp. toward women.
[1860-65]

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cave man,
1. a man who lived in a cave in prehistoric times; cave dweller: »

The first painter may have been a cave man who stained his fingers with the juices of the berries he was picking and then began to play at making pretty hen tracks on some convenient rocky slab (Abraham B. Cohen).

SYNONYM(S): troglodyte.
2. Informal, Figurative. a rough, crude man: »

He was a gorilla in appearance, a cave man in behavior.


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