troglodyte• I was two stages below a troglodyte.• They would all be troglodytes before the war was over, thought Lucinda, with eyes that stood out on little stalks.• This scurrying around like troglodytes is enough to depress anyone.
Origintroglodyte
(1400-1500)Latintroglodytae (plural), from Greek, from trogle“hole, cave” + dyein“to enter”