pleb
Ordinary Joe, briefly
Pleb is informal and mildly dismissive for an ordinary person, someone common or unsophisticated.
It comes from plebeian, the commoner class in ancient Rome as opposed to patricians.
The word carries class-conscious overtones—calling someone a pleb suggests they lack refinement or status: I had to fly economy with the plebs.
Often used ironically or self-deprecatingly.
Internet slang for beginner
- casualRelaxed and informal
- normieSlang for mainstream person
- scrubClean by rubbing hard
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
basic · unwashed · riffraff · commoner · outsider · newbie · amateur · have-not
Non-noble person
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- proletarianWage laborer, no capital
- massesBulk or populace
- working-classManual laborers as group
underclass · have-nots · rabble · hoi polloi · common folk · ordinary people · grassroots · lower class
Highborn Roman elite
- tribuneSpeaker's raised platform
- senateLegislative governing body
- republicState with elected leaders
- consulDiplomat in foreign city
Rome · forum · citizen · centurion · legionary · toga · veto · Caesar
Scornful disregard
- contemptDisdainful disregard
- snobSelf-appointed arbiter of taste
- snobberyPretentious social superiority
- condescensionDemeaning air of superiority
pretentious · highbrow · gatekeeping · exclusion · taste · uncultured · unsophisticated · mainstream
noob
Internet slang for beginner
peasant · basic · unwashed · riffraff · commoner · outsider · newbie · amateur · have-not · underling
commoner
Non-noble person
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- proletarianWage laborer, no capital
- massesBulk or populace
working-class · underclass · have-nots · rabble · hoi polloi · common folk · ordinary people · grassroots · lower class · rank-and-file
patrician
Highborn Roman elite
consul · Rome · forum · citizen · centurion · legionary · toga · veto · Caesar · empire
disdain
Scornful disregard
- contemptDisdainful disregard
- snobSelf-appointed arbiter of taste
- snobberyPretentious social superiority
condescension · pretentious · highbrow · gatekeeping · exclusion · taste · uncultured · unsophisticated · mainstream · basic
- class labelsaristocrat, beggar, bourgeois, commoner, elite
- commonerscommoner, commoners, peasant, peasants, common people
- small frysmall fry, small-fry, pipsqueak, little guy, nobody
- peoplepeople, persons, person, individuals, humans
- social classupper class, middle class, lower class, working class, social class
- British Classupper class, middle class, lower class, working class, aristocrats
plebaristocrat
Person of noble birth
noble · toff · elite · patrician · upper-class
plebconnoisseur
Expert in matters of taste
sophisticate · aesthete · cultured · refined · highbrow