caveman

1. An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.

   The political cartoon showed the politician as a caveman, clubbing the budget depicted as a mammoth.

   Höhlenmensch

   пеще́рный челове́кpeščérnyj čelovék, троглоди́тtroglodít

   пече́рна люди́наpečérna ljudýna

2. (derogatory, figuratively, informal)A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.

3. A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.

   (derogatory, figuratively, informal)A brutish person, one who behaves in a rough, uncivilized way.

   The football squad was made up of cavemen who were responsible for trashing many a locker room.

4. (derogatory, figuratively, informal)Someone, especially a man, who has regressive, old-fashioned attitudes, particularly with regard to women; someone opposed to change or modernity.

   Old Sven is a bit of a caveman; he figures giving women the right to vote was a bad idea.

   Pat is a real caveman when it comes to tech, and refuses to get a smartphone.

1. Are you sure you want to live like a caveman?

   Ти впевнений, що хочеш жити як печерна людина?

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2. The caveman skillfully crafted tools from stone.

   deDer Höhlenmensch fertigte geschickt Werkzeug aus Stein an.

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3. There is evidence that cavemen hunted wooly rhinos.

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4. Reagan was economically neoliberal and socially a caveman.

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5. I wonder when a caveman said something like this.

   ruИнтересно, когда пещерный человек сказал что-то подобное.

   deIch frage mich, wann ein Höhlenmensch so etwas gesagt hat.

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