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wombat 音标拼音: [w'ɑmb,æt] n. 袋熊 袋熊 wombat n 1: burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger Wombat \Wom"bat\, n. [From the native name, womback, wombach, in Australia.] (Zool.) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus {Phascolomys}, especially the common species ({Phascolomys ursinus}). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots. [1913 Webster] 1. Hackish}. 2. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-10) 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.
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