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Piltdown (iou)



Piltdown attrib. adjective. E20.
[A village in Sussex, England.]
Designating or pertaining to a fraudulent fossil composed of a human cranium and an ape jaw and found near Piltdown, or the supposed primitive hominid Eoanthropus dawsoni, to which these remains were ascribed.
transf.: N. Fleming So there is a brain underneath that thatch-covered Piltdown skull of yours.
Piltdowner noun a Piltdown man; a person having the supposed appearance, intelligence, or behaviour of primitive man: M20.