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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wombat \Wom"bat\, n. [From the native name womback wombach, in
Australia.] (Zo["o]l.)
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wombat
n : burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size
of a badger
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
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)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
wombat
1. A {metasyntactic variable} in {Commonwealth
Hackish}.
2. {wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-03-10)
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