groundling

英式音标：groundling怎么读

美式音标：groundling怎么读

groundling词义

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n. 匍匐植物；缺乏鉴赏力的人


groundling英文词源

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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.