Groundling

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Groundling \Ground"ling\, n. [Ground + -ling.]
     1. (Zool.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as
        the loach.
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     2. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on


        the ground, and without floor or benches.
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              No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh.
                                                    --Coleridge.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  groundling
       n : in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing
           section

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "groundling":
     Adamite, Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, attender, audience,
     auditory, being, body, boor, bounder, bourgeois, cad, cat, chap,
     character, churl, claqueur, clown, congregation, creature,
     customer, deadhead, duck, earthling, epicier, fellow, gallery,
     guttersnipe, guy, hand, head, hired applauder, homo, hooligan,
     house, human, human being, ill-bred fellow, individual, joker,
     life, living soul, looby, lout, low fellow, man, mortal, moviegoer,
     mucker, nose, nouveau riche, one, orchestra, party, parvenu,
     pass holder, peasant, person, personage, personality, pit,
     playgoer, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, single,
     somebody, someone, soul, spectator, standee, tellurian, terran,
     theater, theatergoer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, worldling,
     yokel