groundling

English

noun
Definitions
  • Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:
  • An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
  • (by extension) A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.
  • One who is confined to the ground, especially:
  • (Abrahamic religions) Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).

Etymology

Suffix from English ground (that has been ground, earthing).

Origin

English

ground

Gloss

that has been ground, earthing

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