groundlings

[ground-ling]

ground·ling

[ground-ling]
noun
1.
a plant or animal that lives on or close to the ground.
2.
any of various fishes that live at the bottom of the water.
3.
a spectator, reader, or other person of unsophisticated or uncultivated tastes; an uncritical or uncultured person.
4.
a member of a theater audience who sits in one of the cheaper seats.

Origin:
1595–1605; ground1 + -ling1
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Groundlings is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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