The mob, rabble, rabble-rout, canaille; the scum or dregs of the people, or of society; the underworld; profanum vulgus; low company, vermin, nobody.

    A commoner, one of the people, a proletary, proletaire, roturier; a peasant, boor, carle, churl, serf, kern, tyke (or tike), chuff, ryot, fellah, cottar, cottier.

    A swain, clown, hind, clodhopper, bog-trotter, chaw-bacon, hodge, joskin, yokel, bumpkin, ploughman, plough-boy, gaffer, loon, looby, lout, gamin, streetarab, guttersnipe, mudlark.

    An upstart, parvenu, skipjack, novus homo, nouveau riche, outsider, vulgarian, snob, mushroom.

    A beggar, pariah, muckworm, sansculotte, raff, tatterdemalion, ragtag and bobtail, ragamuffin, riffraff, caitiff.

    (Phrases). A man of straw; nobody one knows; the great unwashed.

    A Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, savage, barbarian, yahoo, an unlicked cub.

    Barbarousness, barbarism.

    (Verbs). To be ignoble, etc.

    (Adjectives). Ignoble, mean, low, plebeian, proletarian, vulgar, untitled, homespun, homely, subaltern.

    Base, base - born, beggarly, earth - born, rustic, agrestic, cockney, menial, sorry, scrubby, mushroom, dunghill, sordid, vile, uncivilised, loutish, boorish, churlish, rude, brutish, raffish, unlicked, barbarous, barbarian, barbaric.

  • Title (Substantives), honour, knighthood, etc.
  • Highness, excellency, grace, lordship, worship, reverence, esquire, sir, master, sahib, etc.

    Decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, medal, ribbon, cross, star, garter, feather, crest, epaulette, colours, cockade, livery; order, arms, shield, scutcheon.

    (Phrases). A feather in one's cap; a handle to one's name.

  • Pride (Substantives), haughtiness, loftiness, hauteur, stateliness, pomposity, vainglory, superciliousness, assumption, lordliness, stiffness, primness, arrogance, morgue, starch, starchiness, side uppishness.
  • A proud man, etc., a highflier.

    (Verbs). To be proud, etc., to presume, assume, swagger, strut, bridle.

    (Phrases). To look big; toss the head; give oneself airs; ride the high horse; put on side; hold up one's head; to take the wall.

    To pride oneself on, glory in, pique oneself, plume oneself, preen oneself, to stand upon.

    (Phrases). To put a good face upon; odi profanum vulgus.

    (Adjectives). Proud, haughty, lofty, high, mighty, high-flown, high-minded, puffed up, flushed, supercilious, patronising, condescending, disdainful, overweening, consequential, on stilts, swollen, arrogant, pompous.

    Stately, stiff, starchy, prim, perked up, in buckram, straitlaced, vainglorious, lordly, magisterial, purse- proud, stand-offish.

    Unabashed, etc. 880.


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