low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people,
mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler
classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc
genus omne [Lat.]; the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the
populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the
peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati [Lat.], demos,
hoi polloi [Gr.], great unwashed; man in the street.
mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of
the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of
society; swinish multitude, foex populi†; trash; profanum vulgus [Lat.],
ignobile vulgus [Lat.]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small
fry.
commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican,
proletary†, proletaire†, roturier†, Mr.
Snooks, bourgeois, epicier [Fr.], Philistine, cockney; grisette†,
demimonde.
peasant, countryman, boor, carle†, churl; villain, villein; terrae
filius [Lat.], son of the land; serf, kern†, tyke, tike, chuff†, ryot†,
fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail,
yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy†; rustic, hayseed [Slang],
lunkhead [U.S.], chaw-bacon [Slang], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood
and drawers of water, groundling†; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony
Lumpkin†, looby†, rube [U.S.], lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-
wallopper†, slubberdegullion†; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad,
curmudgeon.
upstart, parvenu, skipjack†; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni
quirites [Lat.], pessoribus orti [Lat.]; bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.],
novus homo [Lat.], snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer;
man of straw.
beggar, gaberlunzie†, muckworm†, mudlark†, sans culotte, raff†,
tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp,
vagabond, bezonian†, panhandler [Slang], sundowner†, chiffonnier,
Cinderella, cinderwench†, scrub, jade; gossoon†.
Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked
cub†, rough diamond†.
barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia.
V. be ignoble &c adj., be nobody &c n..
Adj. ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly;
below par; no great shakes &c (unimportant) 643; homely, homespun;
vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.
plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low
extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction;
lowborn, baseborn, earthborn†; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks;
unknown to fame, obscure, untitled.
rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish,
brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked†.
barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque†; cockney, born within
sound of Bow bells.
underling, menial, subaltern.
Adv. below the salt.
Phr. dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet [Lat.] [Ovid].