groundling
英 ['graʊn(d)lɪŋ]
美
- n. 匍匐植物；缺乏鉴赏力的人
英英释义
- 1. in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section
英文词源
- groundling (n.)
- "theater patron in the pit" (which originally had no floor or benches), c. 1600, from ground (n.) in an Elizabethan sense of "pit of a theater" + -ling. From the beginning emblematic of bad or unsophisticated taste. Old English grundling was a type of fish.