ˈplebbish, a. slang.
Also plebish.
[f. pleb + -ish1.]
Of plebeian character; caddish. Hence ˈplebbishness.
| 1860 Mayne Reid Wild Huntress xxxii, It [Mormonism] appeals neither to reason nor romance. The one is insulted by the very shallowness of its chicanery, while its rank plebbishness disgusts the other. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxi. 388 This is the sort of thing that really does make me feel rather pleb-ish. 1942 Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §147/1 Ungentility; plebeianism,..plebishness. Ibid. §147/5 Plebeian; commonplace,..plebish. |