groundling
Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
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#3·Apr 27, 2026
(by extension) A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.
Delgard got out the handkerchief again and blew his nose loud enough to alert any bird or groundling within several hundred yards.
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