wombat
adj. Profoundly uninteresting or useless.
Other Forms
wombat n.
Etymology
From the phrase waste of money, brains, and time
Examples
2007
Finally, besides the obvious threat to public safety, the whole text-messaging thing strikes us as a WOMBAT (waste of money, brains and time).
—“Just what teen drivers need: text-messaging,” The Beaumont Enterprise, November 05, 2007
2000
Trying to keep abreast of new terminology might seem, to use Silicon Valley lingo, to be WOMBAT duty — a waste of money, brains and time.
—Joseph Kahn, “Between Wall Street and Silicon Valley,a New Lexicon,” The New York Times, January 01, 2000
1990 (earliest)
WOMBAT [Waste Of Money, Brains and Time] adj. Applied to problems which are both profoundly UNINTERESTING in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved.
—Guy Steele, et al., “Jargon File,” MIT, June 12, 1990
Posted: March 30, 1997