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▪ I. prole, n. and a. Freq. derogatory.|prəʊl|
A. n. Abbrev. of proletarian n.
1887G. B. Shaw Let. 21 Oct. (1965) I. 176 We call the working men proles because that is exactly what they are. 1939‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air i. ii. 18 There's a lot of rot talked about the sufferings of the working class. I'm not so sorry for the proles myself. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) 39 The doubles of Perkin and Paullock, peer and prole. 1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four ii. 209 The dumb masses whom we habitually refer to as ‘the proles’, numbering perhaps 85 per cent of the population. 1954Koestler Invisible Writing iii. xxi. 238, I know that these little Proles can't help being what they are—dumb, callous, primitive. 1958Observer 11 May 15/2 Even the boatswain, a ‘good prole’ who doesn't believe in unions or democracy, is afraid to take the helm. 1967J. Potter Foul Play i. 11 Make way there, you proles. 1975I. Murdoch Word Child 10 ‘I'm fed up with hearing the proles binding about the price of meat,’ said Freddie. 1977J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe x. 138 In the Blunderville heyday the Mumfords were the next things to proles.
B. adj. Abbrev. of proletarian a. c.
1938‘G. Orwell’ Let. 20 Apr. in Coll. Ess. (1968) I. 314 As to the great proletarian novel, I really don't see how it's to come into existence. The stuff in Seven Shifts is written from a prole point of view, but of course as literature it's bourgeois literature. 1949― Nineteen Eighty-Four i. 12 A woman down in the prole part of the house suddenly started kicking up a fuss. 1959News Chron. 21 Oct. 3/1 She came from prole roots in St. Pancras. 1963Listener 7 Feb. 263/1 Excellent radio actresses like Gladys Young, for whom our prole dramatists write no parts nowadays. 1969‘H. Calvin’ Chosen Instrument x. 132 Superior journalists..would think it Victorian and prole to know shorthand. 1977Times 20 Apr. 12/2 What has happened in England is that..the proles, or to be exact the prole élite, have seized the power.
▪ II. prole
obs. form of prowl v. |