pleb
noun/plɛb/
Etymology
A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.
Definitions
A commoner
A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
A common person
A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
- You're under my roof, you pleb.
A freshman cadet at a military academy.
- I found some of the novices, plebs they are called, home-sick, and weary with their discipline.
- At Annapolis, the natives are crabs, the freshmen plebs, the sophomores youngsters.
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Of or concerning the lower class of a society.
Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA