submerged tenth

noun

Etymology

Coined by British Methodist preacher William Booth in 1890 in In Darkest England and the Way Out.

Definitions

  1. The poorest ten percent of the population.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for submerged tenth. 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