31-01-2016, 22:43
Music Head Wrote:what's a pleb?
It's short for plebeian, which referred to a 'commoner', specifically in ancient Roman times; a peasant, you could say, someone of a lower social order. Totally outdated, but has persisted and even gained, in terms of derogatory usage, over time. It's a word that is used to describe someone who is uncultured and unsophisticated, for example, but which, oddly, doesn't seem to have hugely insulting connotations. Probably because most of us are plebs anyway. :biggrin:
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