Of or pertaining to a carl or carls; churlish, clownish, vulgar, coarse; rude, mean.

Of low social status; common, vulgar, ‘base’. Obsolete.

Simple attributive or in apposition: That is or acts as a carl; knavish.

Low or mean in respect of birth or position; belonging to the common herd.

Having the manners, behaviour, or appearance of a ruffian (chiefly in sense A. 1); that is a ruffian. Also figurative of things.

Like a porter (porter, n.2 1a); (derogatory) uncouth, vulgar, rude.

Vulgar, coarse, ill-bred. Obsolete.

Of low birth and manners. Obsolete. rare.

Chiefly of a person: not distinguished by rank or position; of low social position; relating to, or characteristic of, the common people; common…

characteristic of or befitting a tapster.

Belonging to or characteristic of the lower part of the social scale or the lower classes; vulgar, coarse. Now archaic and rare.

depreciative. Common, vulgar. Obsolete.

apparently base, somewhat base.

a contemptuous epithet for a person.

Relating to or characteristic of a porter (porter, n.2 1); (derogatory) uncouth, vulgar, rude.

Squalid, beggarly.

Low-bred, scurrilous.

Chiefly derogatory. Having qualities or features characteristic of or attributed to the lower social classes; commonplace, undistinguished…

figurative. Low, mean; grovelling, obsequious; devious, underhand. Now rare.

derogatory. Of a person: lower-class, vulgar. Obsolete.

Resembling or having the characteristics of a mob; disorderly, tumultuous; crowded. Also (usually depreciative): characteristic of or appealing to…

With depreciative connotation. Characterized by a lack of good breeding; coarse, vulgar; not socially respectable.

Earthly, worldly, sordid.

Of a person: characterized by a lack of good breeding; vulgar, coarse; (later also) despicable, contemptible. Cf. lowlife, adj. 1.

attributive. Characteristic of the neighbourhood of Whitechapel; unrefined, vulgar, disreputable. Now rare.

Of a person: of low social status, lower-class; coarse, vulgar, disreputable; (later also) despicable, contemptible.

smacking of the Bowery in New York.

attributive passing into adj. Brought up in or appropriate to the gutter; of a low or disreputable character. (Frequently in gutter press, gutter…

attributive, in sense ‘of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Bowery’.

Somewhat low; fairly low.

as adj. Lubberly.

boorish, stupid, unenlightened, used derisively to describe persons, attitudes, etc., supposed to be characteristic of the lumpenproletariat; also…