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語源

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

発音

• IPA: /plɛb/
• 韻: -ɛb

名詞

pleb (plural plebs)

1. A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
2. (derogatory) A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
   • 1795, John O'Keeffe, Life's Vagaries, act V, scene ii, line 85:

     You're under my roof, you pleb.

3. (US, slang, usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
   • 1838, Caroline H. Gilman, The Poetry of Travelling in the United States..., page 76:

     I found some of the novices, plebs they are called, home-sick, and weary with their discipline.

   • 1922, Dialect Notes, number 5, American Dialect Society, page 189:

     At Annapolis, the natives are crabs, the freshmen plebs, the sophomores youngsters.

同意語

• prole, plebe, plebeian

反意語

• toff, posho

派生語

関連する語

• plebe, plebeian, plebs

形容詞

pleb (not comparable)

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

参照

• “pleb, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2006.

アナグラム

• BPEL, Belp, pelB, blep