the hoi polloi
11hoi polloi — [[t]hɔ͟ɪ pəlɔ͟ɪ[/t]] N PLURAL If someone refers to the hoi polloi, they are referring in a humorous or rather rude way to ordinary people, in contrast to rich, well educated, or upper class people. Monstrously inflated costs are designed to keep… …
12hoi polloi — Synonyms and related words: cog, commonality, commonalty, creature, demos, flunky, follower, ignobile vulgus, inferior, junior, lightweight, lower class, lower orders, many headed multitude, masses, mobile vulgus, pawn, second fiddle, secondary,… …
13hoi polloi — noun in days long past, the royal family would not have deigned to commune with the hoi polloi Syn: masses, common people, populace, public, multitude, rank and file, lower order(s), plebeians, proletariat; mob, herd, rabble, riffraff, great… …
14hoi polloi — noun the hoi polloi an insulting word for ordinary people …
15hoi polloi — 1837, from Gk. hoi polloi (pl.) the people, lit. the many (pl. of polys; see POLY (Cf. poly )). Used in Greek by Dryden (1668) and Byron (1822), in both cases preceded by the, even though Gk. hoi means the, a mistake repeated often by subsequent… …
16hoi polloi — [hoi′pə loi′] n. [Gr, lit., the many] the common people; the masses: usually patronizing or contemptuous: sometimes preceded by the …
17hoi polloi — [n] the masses commonality, commoners, common people, rank and file, the herd, the multitude, the proletariat, the working class; concepts 379,417 …
18hoi polloi — ► PLURAL NOUN derogatory ▪ the common people. ORIGIN Greek, the many …
19hoi polloi — (HOY pol LOY) [Greek: the people] Ordinary people; the masses; the lower classes; riffraff. In their elegant box suites, the privileged could distance themselves from the convention hoi polloi …
20hoi polloi — hoi pol·loi || ‚hɔɪpÉ™ lɔɪ the masses, the throng, the common people, the many (Greek) …
