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Groundling   Listen
noun
Groundling  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
2.
A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. "No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh."





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"Groundling" Quotes from Famous Books



... the earth, seems less sensible of nature than he. It is a pleasing sight to see the little creature, as he stands on his haunches, wondering, and the brain of a young Webster would naturally seek to let such a groundling have all his right ...
— In The Boyhood of Lincoln - A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk • Hezekiah Butterworth


Words linked to "Groundling" :   theatregoer, theatergoer


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