[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
phascolomys phascolomys ursinus 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wombat
     n : burrowing herbivorous australian marsupials about the size
         of a badger

[3] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

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.


see also:
uninteresting crawling horror smop commonwealth hackish 

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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
     
     
see also:
uninteresting crawling horror smop jargon file 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

wombat
     
        1.  a metasyntactic variable in commonwealth
        hackish.
     
        2.  wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-03-10
     
     
see also:
metasyntactic variable commonwealth hackish wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk jargon file 

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