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no-brow

adj

Etymology

Blend of no + lowbrow. Popularized by writer John Seabrook in Nobrow: the culture of marketing, the marketing of culture (2000).

  1. inherited from *h₃bʰrúHs✻ — “brow”
  2. inherited from *brūwō✻
  3. inherited from *brāwu✻
  4. inherited from brū
  5. inherited from browe
  6. compounded as lowbrow — “low + brow”
  7. compounded as no-brow — “no + lowbrow”

Definitions

  1. Completely devoid of cultural or educational value.

    • From no-brow beginnings, when BSG [Battlestar Galactica] still had to prove it had outwitted the shonky source material, the show gained cult respect and a few more viewers by the second year.
    • During the 2000s, belles-lettres accounted for less than 3 percent of all literature sold in the United States, and popular literature made gains in prestige and legitimacy, spawning a no-brow culture.
    • The tremendous concern and fascination with South Park's “no-brow” humor (Wild 1998: 32) has largely deflected attention away from an equally interesting and significant factor in the show's history and status as a cultural artifact.

  2. Located outside the traditional taste hierarchy, blending highbrow, middlebrow, and…

    Located outside the traditional taste hierarchy, blending highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA