hoi polloi
noun/ˈhɔɪ pəˌlɔɪ/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek οἱ πολλοί (hoi polloí, “the many”).
Definitions
The common people
The common people; the masses. (Used with or without the definite article.)
- The clientele is a select species of hoi polloi, intermixed with writers, painters and politicos and the more sophisticated American tourists.
- Holding the meeting in Egypt is a Machiavellian way to look international but in reality to prevent hoi Interent polloi from attending the meeting.
The elite.
- Our moral standards sway Like Mrs. Tanqueray, And we are theoretically Most aesthetically Eager to display The fact that we're aggressively And excessively Anxious to destroy All the snobbery And hob-nobbery Of the hoi-polloi.
- "You gotta have references from the hoi polloi or else the MacDonalds won't give you the time of day. You don't happen to know the Queen, do you?"
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hoi polloi. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA