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Vinony

pleb

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /plɛb/

adj

Etymology: A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.

  1. Of or concerning the lower class of a society.
  2. Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.

noun

Etymology: A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.

  1. A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
  2. A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person.

    “You're under my roof, you pleb.”

  3. 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.”