ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

876. Commonalty -- N. commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low
society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones
and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common
herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne [Lat.]; the many, the general, the crowd, the people,
the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king
Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati [Lat.], demos, hoi polloi [Gr.], great unwashed;
man in the street.
mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of
the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi † ; trash;
profanum vulgus [Lat.], ignobile vulgus [Lat.]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small
fry.
commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary † , proletaire † ,
roturier † , Mr.
Snooks, bourgeois, epicier [Fr.], Philistine, cockney; grisette † , demimonde.
peasant, countryman, boor, carle † , churl; villain, villein; terrae filius [Lat.], son of the
land; serf, kern † , tyke, tike, chuff † , ryot † , fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod,
clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy † ; rustic, hayseed
[Slang], lunkhead [U.S.], chaw-bacon [Slang], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and
drawers of water, groundling † ; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin † , looby † , rube
[U.S.], lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper † , slubberdegullion † ; vulgar fellow,
low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.
upstart, parvenu, skipjack † ; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites [Lat.],
pessoribus orti [Lat.]; bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.], novus homo [Lat.], snob, gent,
mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw.
beggar, gaberlunzie † , muckworm † , mudlark † , sans culotte, raff † , tatterdemalion, caitiff,
ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian † , panhandler [Slang],
sundowner † , chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench † , scrub, jade; gossoon † .
Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub † , rough
diamond † .
barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia.
V. be ignoble &c adj., be nobody &c n..
Adj. ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no
great shakes &c (unimportant) 643; homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.
plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean
parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn, earthborn † ; mushroom,
dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to fame, obscure, untitled.
rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude,
unlicked † .
barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque † ; cockney, born within sound of Bow
bells.
underling, menial, subaltern.
Adv. below the salt.
Phr. dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet [Lat.] [Ovid].
877. Title -- N. title, honor; knighthood &c (nobility) 875.