pleb
3
8.9
- noun
- /plɛb/
- Offensive
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plebeyo (despectivo)
- You look like a gentleman, I look like a pleb.
I don't buy consoles because I'm not a pleb.
- I don't buy consoles because I'm not a pleb.
- And I'm sitting there going, you're a fucking Dick, you an absolute pleb.
- I think that's, it's that patronising, pointing at the, the plebs down in the, the peasantry as they walk past and saying we know what's best for you.
- Oh, if you who turned up at a protest after the Southport massacre, you were clearly, according to the mainstream media, a racist bigot, A pleb.
- Just as we, the plebs spend time trying to influence influence our MPs, so do the MPs spend their time trying to influence someone higher up.
Examples
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These people up here, the intellectuals, are looking down on the plebs, and saying you aren’t bright enough to decide the future of your country.
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I fully admire and respect Judith for reaching out to the plebs with an invitation to start a frank discussion.
Blog text (23) -
I am not a pleb and I'm not gonna grow up to be a pleb like you.
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Why have you put me in here with these plebs?!
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Nobody knows dirt like the plebs.
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I'm just a pleb.
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They say, "You're a pleb," and they take away your right to self-fulfillment.
Fiction book (2002) -
Like Mr. Rastani, they don't care what happens to the plebs.
Blog text (23) -
If the plebs didn't have language, they couldn't dream of intellectual freedom.
Fiction book (1998) -
In his eyes, I was just another pleb who did not understand the finer things in life.
Synonyms
1
7.7
A person from the ordinary people with no special title
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9.9
A person who is new or unimportant and used as an insult
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Etymology
Pleb comes from the Latin word plebs, which meant 'the common people'. You can see the same root in plebeian, meaning 'ordinary' or 'of lower social rank', so calling someone a pleb is a way to say they are ordinary or of lower status.