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Low-brow

[n. loh-brou; adj. loh-brou] Origin

low·brow

[n. loh-brou; adj. loh-brou]
noun
1.
a person who is uninterested, uninvolved, or uneducated in intellectual activities or pursuits.
adjective
2.
being a lowbrow: that lowbrow idiot.
3.
of, pertaining to, or proper to a lowbrow: lowbrow entertainment.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Origin:
1905–10, Americanism; low1 + brow

low·brow·ism, noun
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Word Origin & History

lowbrow
"person who is not intellectual," 1902, from low (adj.) + brow. Said to have been coined by humorist Will Irwin. A low brow as a sign of primitive qualities was common in 19c. fiction.
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Cultural Dictionary

lowbrow definition


Unsophisticated, uncultured, vulgar: “My blind date took me to a mud-wrestling match. What a lowbrow evening!”

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Slang Dictionary

lowbrow definition

[ˈlobrɑʊ]
  1. n.
    a nonintellectual person; an anti-intellectual person. : Some lowbrow came in and made a stink about not being able to find any Gene Autry records.
  2. mod.
    nonintellectual; anti-intellectual. : I like my lowbrow music and my lowbrow friends!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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