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cavemanlike

adj

Etymology

From caveman + -like.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. compounded as caveman — “cave + man”
  7. suffixed as cavemanlike — “caveman + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or relating to cavemen.

    • Here books are the subject of a bizarre, cavemanlike ritual, as six semi-naked men squat together in a circle on top of piles of books, grinning like village idiots.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA