plebeiann.adj.

Brit.

/plᵻˈbiːən/, U.S.

/pləˈbiən/

Forms: 1500s–1700s plebeyan, 1500s– plebeian, 1500s– plebian (now rare), 1600s plebean; Scottish pre-1700 plebeane, pre-1700 plebien, pre-1700 1700s– plebeian.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Latin plēbēius , -an suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin plēbēius (noun) member of the plebs, one of the common people, (adjective) belonging to the plebs, belonging to the common people, suitable for or typical of the common people, common (usually in pejorative sense) (apparently < plēbēs , earlier form of plēbs plebs n. + -ius , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix, perhaps after Middle French plebeyen, plebein, plebien a commoner (end of 14th cent.; French plébéien ), Middle French plebeien, adjective, in senses ‘belonging to the Roman plebs’ (c1355; French plébéien : see note), ‘belonging to the populace’ (1378; compare also Middle French plebeyan , adjective (1545)). Compare post-classical Latin plebeianus member of the common people, commoner (13th cent. in a British source). Compare earlier patrician n.¹, patrician adj.¹The form plebian suggests stress on the first syllable. This stress pattern is occasionally attested in earlier verse (compare quot. a1616 at sense A. 1). Bailey indicates stress on the first syllable in 1727, but from 1730 onwards indicates stress on the second syllable. N.E.D. (1907) gives only a pronunciation with stress on the second syllable but with a close vowel in the first, (plibī·ⁱăn) /pliˈbiː(ɪ)ən/. With plebeianness n. at Derivatives compare earlier plebeiance n., plebeianism n., plebeity n. 2.

A. n.

1. Roman History. A member of the plebs; a commoner, as opposed to one of the privileged patricians. Cf. plebs n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people > ancient Roman

plebeian1533

plebe1583

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iv. ii. 57 Na plebeane will tak þe dochter of ane patriciane but hir consent.

1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1582) 35 She was none of the Senatours wiues, but a Plebeian, as much to say as a craftes woman, and no gentlemans daughter borne.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. x. 7 The dull Tribunes, That with the fustie Plebeans, hate thine Honors.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 122 And as Factions for Kindred, so also Factions for Government of Religion, as of Papists, Protestants, &c. or of State, as Patricians, and Plebeians of old time in Rome.

1740 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. vii. Pref. (note) It was now shared..between the Senatorian and Equestrian Orders, and the..Plebeians.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 29 The proudest and most perfect separation which can be found in any age or country, between the nobles and the people, is perhaps that of the Patricians and the Plebeians, as it was established in the first age of the Roman republic.

1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. i. 8 The patricians and plebeians of Rome represent, at this early period, two races of different origin.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 62 The long..struggle between the privileged Patricians and the unenfranchised plebeians.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 244/2 The plebeians accepted the offer, and accordingly two ‘curule’ aediles were appointed.

1984 M. Bloch Marxism & Anthropology (BNC) 32 The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman..stood in constant opposition to one another.

2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) iv. 62 This salt tax system was devised by Marcus Livius, a tribune, a government official representing plebeians.

2. gen. A person not of noble or privileged rank; one of the ordinary people, a commoner. Now usually derogatory: a person of low social status, a common or vulgar person. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people

Jackc1390

fellowa1400

commonerc1400

populara1525

plebeianc1550

ungentle1562

Tom Tiler1582

roturier1586

vulgarity1646

little man1707

pleb1795

man of the people1799

the man in the street1831

snob1831

man1860

oickman1925

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xv. 102 There blude..vald hef na bettir cullour nor the blude of ane plebien or of ane mecanik craftis man.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Lady of May in Arcadia (1598) sig. Bbb4 Hath not the pulchritude of my vertues protected me from the contaminating hands of these plebeians.

c1600 Timon (1980) i. iii. 9 Pœ: Yo^r. anckles be too litle. Gelas: The more gentlemanlike I shall not be a fatt greasy plebeian.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Roturier, a Yeoman, or Plebeyan;..any lay man that is no Gentleman.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues ii. 259 If the Philosophers themselves be such fools, what are the Plebeians?

1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe 13 The nobles have the monopoly of honour. The plebeians a monopoly of all the means of acquiring wealth.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. ii. iv. 252 To the brave, there is but one sort of plebeian, and that is the coward.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lviii. 408 In some cantons [in Switzerland] the old families have so completely withdrawn..from public office..that it would be assumed that a politician was necessarily a plebeian.

1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xvi. 156 And his offence? That he, a plebeian, had dared to love the daughter of the aristocrat.

1984 B. Breytenbach Mouroir 75 It is..a hotel from where the plebians..may have a peek at the aristocrats.

2004 Boston Herald (Nexis) 3 Oct. 18 Why can't these plebeians live like the ants that they are in high-rise public-housing projects.

B. adj.

1. Of or belonging to the Roman plebs.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [adjective] > of ancient Rome

plebeian1566

plebile1606

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. iv. f. 9^v To what purpose be the plebeian Magistrates ordeined?

1667 R. Baxter Reasons Christian Relig. 600 The reasons which the Stoicks and the rest of the Philosophers give against the Plebeian Philosophers..may much conduce to help many Divines themselves to a righter understanding of the same controversie.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xii. 351 Each person, whether of the senatorial, the equestrian, or the plebeian order, arrived at his destined place without trouble or confusion.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 51 His plebeian colleague Decius Mus..crowned a worthy life by devoting himself to death for the state in conformity with a national superstition.

1874 G. Bancroft Footpr. of Time i. 88 Rutilius, the first plebeian dictator at Rome.

1901 A. H. J. Greenidge Rom. Public Life 91 It is probable that in early times plebeian law recognized no debt except that created by the nexal contract.

1962 R. Syme Rom. Revolution 376 Of the great plebeian marshals..only one..is honoured by Horace with the dedication of an ode.

2000 J. C. Yardley Dawn Rom. Empire 141 The law had been enacted by the plebeian tribune.

2. Of undistinguished birth or rank; of or relating to the ordinary people; belonging to or connected with the populace; popular.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [adjective]

landish1489

popil1531

popular1533

secular1589

plebeial1590

plebeian1602

vulgar1605

plebal1606

multitudinousa1616

gregarian1632

gregary1640

populous1657

roturière1791

demotic1831

vulgarian1833

demic1834

commonal1865

communal1878

folkish1938

plebby1962

pleb1972

1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 301 Priuate person or plebian multitude.

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. iii. 477 Setting vp maypooles daunsing the morris with hobby horses,..and like Plebean sportes.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 394 The Plebean Woman walk without Doors.

1795 E. Burke Let. to R. Burke in Wks. (1842) II. 458 To cut off (perhaps) three millions of plebeian subjects..from all connexion with the popular representation of the kingdom.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables i. 31 They had taken that downright plunge, which, sooner or later, is the destiny of all families, whether princely or plebian.

1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. vi. 178 For the abashing of plebeian beholders.

1969 I. Deutscher Marxism in our Time (1972) ix. 193 In the process of the revolution the bourgeoisie was driven forward by the plebeian masses.

1998 L. L. Johnson & S. Lipsett-Rivera Faces of Honor 6 The culture of honor..pierced class boundaries in colonial Latin America, spreading from the elite to the plebeian class.

3. Chiefly derogatory. Having qualities or features characteristic of or attributed to the lower social classes; commonplace, undistinguished; unsophisticated, uncultured, vulgar, coarse. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > vulgar

knavishc1405

peoplisha1425

porterlike1568

mechanical1584

souterly1589

tapsterly1589

mechanic1598

porterly1603

tavernly1612

plebeian1615

vulgar1643

mobbish1695

pothouse1780

commonish1792

common1804

vulgarian1833

vulgarish1860

unselect1867

off-colour1875

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective]

carlisha1240

lewdc1380

carlc1450

villain1483

ruffian1528

shake-ragged1550

porterlike1568

popular1583

ungracious1584

ordinarya1586

tapsterly1589

mechanic1598

round-headed1598

base-like1600

strummell-patch1600

porterly1603

scrubbing1603

vernaculous1607

plebeian1615

reptile1653

proletarian1663

mobbish1695

low1725

terraefilial1745

low-lifed1747

Whitechapel1785

lowlife1794

boweryish1846

gutter1849

bowery1852

lowish1886

swab1914

lumpen1944

1615 R. A. Valiant Welshman i. i. sig. B For to plebeyan wits, it is as good, As to be silent, as not vnderstood.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 192 That Prayers and Thanksgiving, be made in Words and Phrases, not sudden, nor light, nor Plebeian.

1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe v. 75 A Queen, and own a base Plebeian mind.

1793 S. Burrell Poems II. 125 Think thou hast Plebian face, Little beauty, little grace.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxi. 201 An important gentleman..of rather plebeian countenance.

1853 C. Brontë Villette I. vii. 119 Their dress implied pretensions to the rank of gentlemen, but, poor things! they were very plebeian in soul.

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xi. 318 There are certain patches of ground, which..Nature..has covered with hungry plebeian growths [of vegetation].

1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 5/1 He glanced across the small table to the girl he's grown to love with all the sturdy, if plebeian, strength of his heart.

1987 Melody Maker 15 Aug. 6/1 Unswingingly plebian in his dress sense, he modelled himself on the great Mark E. Smith.

2004 Dallas Observer (Nexis) 12 Aug. The simple seasonings of salt and pepper, with an occasional venture into soy sauce or brown mustard, are enough for our plebeian tastes.

Derivatives

pleˈbeianly adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [adverb]

plebeianly1659

1659 J. Gauden Serm. (1660) a ij b An age pittifully and plebeianly Antiepiscopal.

1831 Examiner 809/2 Patriot Kings who walk about with umbrellas under their arms, prepared to be plebeianly rained upon, instead of royally reigning.

1992 Times (Nexis) 16 June He is, patently and plebeianly, honest.

pleˈbeianness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity

community1600

vulgarness1642

vulgar1655

vulgarism1749

vulgaritya1774

tigerism1836

plebeianness1840

shopkeeperism1843

vulgarianism1920

corniness1932

kitschiness1971

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > position or quality of

plebeiance1621

commonership1648

peopleship1650

plebeity1663

plebeianism1723

roture1738

plebeianness1840

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour

villainyc1340

churlhood1382

rudenessc1405

boistousness1526

uplandishness1530

rusticity1531

coarseness1541

loutishnessa1556

grossness1563

boorishness1570

rusticality1572

clownishness1576

bouerie1577

roughness1581

clownery1589

swinishness1591

peasantryc1592

inurbanity1598

community1600

rusticalnessa1603

clownagea1637

wildness1639

vulgarness1642

unpolishedness1652

brutism1687

mismanners1697

unpoliteness1700

brutality1709

mechanicism1710

indelicacy1712

untameness1727

vulgarism1749

vulgaritya1774

shag1785

piggishness1796

cubbishness1828

sylvanity1832

rusticness1838

plebeianness1840

swainishness1854

baboonery1857

yahooism1862

slanginess1865

bucolicism1879

vulgarianism1920

outbackery1961

yobbishness1969

ockerism1974

blokeishness1989

1840 New Monthly Mag. 60 513 While I have a voice, sir, I will uplift it against such low-bred vulgarity and plebeianness.

2004 M. De La Cadena Indigenous Mestizos 147 From the neoindianista viewpoint, plebeianness defined national belonging and was not determined by race..or by class origin.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	plebeian
释义	plebeiann.adj. Brit. /plᵻˈbiːən/, U.S. /pləˈbiən/ Forms: 1500s–1700s plebeyan, 1500s– plebeian, 1500s– plebian (now rare), 1600s plebean; Scottish pre-1700 plebeane, pre-1700 plebien, pre-1700 1700s– plebeian. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Latin plēbēius , -an suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin plēbēius (noun) member of the plebs, one of the common people, (adjective) belonging to the plebs, belonging to the common people, suitable for or typical of the common people, common (usually in pejorative sense) (apparently < plēbēs , earlier form of plēbs plebs n. + -ius , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix, perhaps after Middle French plebeyen, plebein, plebien a commoner (end of 14th cent.; French plébéien ), Middle French plebeien, adjective, in senses ‘belonging to the Roman plebs’ (c1355; French plébéien : see note), ‘belonging to the populace’ (1378; compare also Middle French plebeyan , adjective (1545)). Compare post-classical Latin plebeianus member of the common people, commoner (13th cent. in a British source). Compare earlier patrician n.¹, patrician adj.¹The form plebian suggests stress on the first syllable. This stress pattern is occasionally attested in earlier verse (compare quot. a1616 at sense A. 1). Bailey indicates stress on the first syllable in 1727, but from 1730 onwards indicates stress on the second syllable. N.E.D. (1907) gives only a pronunciation with stress on the second syllable but with a close vowel in the first, (plibī·ⁱăn) /pliˈbiː(ɪ)ən/. With plebeianness n. at Derivatives compare earlier plebeiance n., plebeianism n., plebeity n. 2. A. n. 1. Roman History. A member of the plebs; a commoner, as opposed to one of the privileged patricians. Cf. plebs n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people > ancient Roman plebeian1533 plebe1583 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iv. ii. 57 Na plebeane will tak þe dochter of ane patriciane but hir consent. 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1582) 35 She was none of the Senatours wiues, but a Plebeian, as much to say as a craftes woman, and no gentlemans daughter borne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. x. 7 The dull Tribunes, That with the fustie Plebeans, hate thine Honors. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 122 And as Factions for Kindred, so also Factions for Government of Religion, as of Papists, Protestants, &c. or of State, as Patricians, and Plebeians of old time in Rome. 1740 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. vii. Pref. (note) It was now shared..between the Senatorian and Equestrian Orders, and the..Plebeians. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 29 The proudest and most perfect separation which can be found in any age or country, between the nobles and the people, is perhaps that of the Patricians and the Plebeians, as it was established in the first age of the Roman republic. 1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. i. 8 The patricians and plebeians of Rome represent, at this early period, two races of different origin. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 62 The long..struggle between the privileged Patricians and the unenfranchised plebeians. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 244/2 The plebeians accepted the offer, and accordingly two ‘curule’ aediles were appointed. 1984 M. Bloch Marxism & Anthropology (BNC) 32 The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman..stood in constant opposition to one another. 2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) iv. 62 This salt tax system was devised by Marcus Livius, a tribune, a government official representing plebeians. 2. gen. A person not of noble or privileged rank; one of the ordinary people, a commoner. Now usually derogatory: a person of low social status, a common or vulgar person. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people Jackc1390 fellowa1400 commonerc1400 populara1525 plebeianc1550 ungentle1562 Tom Tiler1582 roturier1586 vulgarity1646 little man1707 pleb1795 man of the people1799 the man in the street1831 snob1831 man1860 oickman1925 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xv. 102 There blude..vald hef na bettir cullour nor the blude of ane plebien or of ane mecanik craftis man. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Lady of May in Arcadia (1598) sig. Bbb4 Hath not the pulchritude of my vertues protected me from the contaminating hands of these plebeians. c1600 Timon (1980) i. iii. 9 Pœ: Yo^r. anckles be too litle. Gelas: The more gentlemanlike I shall not be a fatt greasy plebeian. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Roturier, a Yeoman, or Plebeyan;..any lay man that is no Gentleman. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues ii. 259 If the Philosophers themselves be such fools, what are the Plebeians? 1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe 13 The nobles have the monopoly of honour. The plebeians a monopoly of all the means of acquiring wealth. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. ii. iv. 252 To the brave, there is but one sort of plebeian, and that is the coward. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lviii. 408 In some cantons [in Switzerland] the old families have so completely withdrawn..from public office..that it would be assumed that a politician was necessarily a plebeian. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xvi. 156 And his offence? That he, a plebeian, had dared to love the daughter of the aristocrat. 1984 B. Breytenbach Mouroir 75 It is..a hotel from where the plebians..may have a peek at the aristocrats. 2004 Boston Herald (Nexis) 3 Oct. 18 Why can't these plebeians live like the ants that they are in high-rise public-housing projects. B. adj. 1. Of or belonging to the Roman plebs. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [adjective] > of ancient Rome plebeian1566 plebile1606 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. iv. f. 9^v To what purpose be the plebeian Magistrates ordeined? 1667 R. Baxter Reasons Christian Relig. 600 The reasons which the Stoicks and the rest of the Philosophers give against the Plebeian Philosophers..may much conduce to help many Divines themselves to a righter understanding of the same controversie. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xii. 351 Each person, whether of the senatorial, the equestrian, or the plebeian order, arrived at his destined place without trouble or confusion. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 51 His plebeian colleague Decius Mus..crowned a worthy life by devoting himself to death for the state in conformity with a national superstition. 1874 G. Bancroft Footpr. of Time i. 88 Rutilius, the first plebeian dictator at Rome. 1901 A. H. J. Greenidge Rom. Public Life 91 It is probable that in early times plebeian law recognized no debt except that created by the nexal contract. 1962 R. Syme Rom. Revolution 376 Of the great plebeian marshals..only one..is honoured by Horace with the dedication of an ode. 2000 J. C. Yardley Dawn Rom. Empire 141 The law had been enacted by the plebeian tribune. 2. Of undistinguished birth or rank; of or relating to the ordinary people; belonging to or connected with the populace; popular. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [adjective] landish1489 popil1531 popular1533 secular1589 plebeial1590 plebeian1602 vulgar1605 plebal1606 multitudinousa1616 gregarian1632 gregary1640 populous1657 roturière1791 demotic1831 vulgarian1833 demic1834 commonal1865 communal1878 folkish1938 plebby1962 pleb1972 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 301 Priuate person or plebian multitude. a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. iii. 477 Setting vp maypooles daunsing the morris with hobby horses,..and like Plebean sportes. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 394 The Plebean Woman walk without Doors. 1795 E. Burke Let. to R. Burke in Wks. (1842) II. 458 To cut off (perhaps) three millions of plebeian subjects..from all connexion with the popular representation of the kingdom. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables i. 31 They had taken that downright plunge, which, sooner or later, is the destiny of all families, whether princely or plebian. 1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. vi. 178 For the abashing of plebeian beholders. 1969 I. Deutscher Marxism in our Time (1972) ix. 193 In the process of the revolution the bourgeoisie was driven forward by the plebeian masses. 1998 L. L. Johnson & S. Lipsett-Rivera Faces of Honor 6 The culture of honor..pierced class boundaries in colonial Latin America, spreading from the elite to the plebeian class. 3. Chiefly derogatory. Having qualities or features characteristic of or attributed to the lower social classes; commonplace, undistinguished; unsophisticated, uncultured, vulgar, coarse. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > vulgar knavishc1405 peoplisha1425 porterlike1568 mechanical1584 souterly1589 tapsterly1589 mechanic1598 porterly1603 tavernly1612 plebeian1615 vulgar1643 mobbish1695 pothouse1780 commonish1792 common1804 vulgarian1833 vulgarish1860 unselect1867 off-colour1875 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective] carlisha1240 lewdc1380 carlc1450 villain1483 ruffian1528 shake-ragged1550 porterlike1568 popular1583 ungracious1584 ordinarya1586 tapsterly1589 mechanic1598 round-headed1598 base-like1600 strummell-patch1600 porterly1603 scrubbing1603 vernaculous1607 plebeian1615 reptile1653 proletarian1663 mobbish1695 low1725 terraefilial1745 low-lifed1747 Whitechapel1785 lowlife1794 boweryish1846 gutter1849 bowery1852 lowish1886 swab1914 lumpen1944 1615 R. A. Valiant Welshman i. i. sig. B For to plebeyan wits, it is as good, As to be silent, as not vnderstood. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 192 That Prayers and Thanksgiving, be made in Words and Phrases, not sudden, nor light, nor Plebeian. 1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe v. 75 A Queen, and own a base Plebeian mind. 1793 S. Burrell Poems II. 125 Think thou hast Plebian face, Little beauty, little grace. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxi. 201 An important gentleman..of rather plebeian countenance. 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. vii. 119 Their dress implied pretensions to the rank of gentlemen, but, poor things! they were very plebeian in soul. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xi. 318 There are certain patches of ground, which..Nature..has covered with hungry plebeian growths [of vegetation]. 1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 5/1 He glanced across the small table to the girl he's grown to love with all the sturdy, if plebeian, strength of his heart. 1987 Melody Maker 15 Aug. 6/1 Unswingingly plebian in his dress sense, he modelled himself on the great Mark E. Smith. 2004 Dallas Observer (Nexis) 12 Aug. The simple seasonings of salt and pepper, with an occasional venture into soy sauce or brown mustard, are enough for our plebeian tastes. Derivatives pleˈbeianly adv. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [adverb] plebeianly1659 1659 J. Gauden Serm. (1660) a ij b An age pittifully and plebeianly Antiepiscopal. 1831 Examiner 809/2 Patriot Kings who walk about with umbrellas under their arms, prepared to be plebeianly rained upon, instead of royally reigning. 1992 Times (Nexis) 16 June He is, patently and plebeianly, honest. pleˈbeianness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity community1600 vulgarness1642 vulgar1655 vulgarism1749 vulgaritya1774 tigerism1836 plebeianness1840 shopkeeperism1843 vulgarianism1920 corniness1932 kitschiness1971 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > position or quality of plebeiance1621 commonership1648 peopleship1650 plebeity1663 plebeianism1723 roture1738 plebeianness1840 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour villainyc1340 churlhood1382 rudenessc1405 boistousness1526 uplandishness1530 rusticity1531 coarseness1541 loutishnessa1556 grossness1563 boorishness1570 rusticality1572 clownishness1576 bouerie1577 roughness1581 clownery1589 swinishness1591 peasantryc1592 inurbanity1598 community1600 rusticalnessa1603 clownagea1637 wildness1639 vulgarness1642 unpolishedness1652 brutism1687 mismanners1697 unpoliteness1700 brutality1709 mechanicism1710 indelicacy1712 untameness1727 vulgarism1749 vulgaritya1774 shag1785 piggishness1796 cubbishness1828 sylvanity1832 rusticness1838 plebeianness1840 swainishness1854 baboonery1857 yahooism1862 slanginess1865 bucolicism1879 vulgarianism1920 outbackery1961 yobbishness1969 ockerism1974 blokeishness1989 1840 New Monthly Mag. 60 513 While I have a voice, sir, I will uplift it against such low-bred vulgarity and plebeianness. 2004 M. De La Cadena Indigenous Mestizos 147 From the neoindianista viewpoint, plebeianness defined national belonging and was not determined by race..or by class origin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1533
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