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Definition of Groundlings
1. groundling [n] - See also: groundling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Groundlings
Literary usage of Groundlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"To split the cars of the groundlings^, who for the г part are capable of nothing
but inexplicable ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1810)
"This would be splitting the ears of the groundlings with a vengeance! ART.
X.—La Mort d'Abel; Poeme en Imitation de Gesner, S;c. The Death of Abel; ..."
3. Men of the Time: Biographical Sketches of Eminent Living Characters ... Also by Alaric Alexander Watts (1856)
"In 1837 Mr. Carlyle published "The French in this new style of denunciation
astonished the groundlings throughout ..."
4. Notes of Thought by Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883)
"passion to tatters, and split the ears of the groundlings, and they will yell
with joy. ... groundlings ..."
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