different between pleb vs plew

English

Etymology

A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

pleb (plural plebs)

1. A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society.
2. (derogatory) A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
   • 1795, John O'Keeffe, Life's Vagaries, Act V, Scene ii, line 85:

     You're under my roof, you pleb.

3. (US, slang, usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
   • 1838, Caroline H. Gilman, The Poetry of Travelling in the United States..., p. 76:

     I found some of the novices, plebs they are called, home-sick, and weary with their discipline.

   • 1922, Dialect Notes, American Dialect Society, No. 5, p. 189:

     At Annapolis, the natives are crabs, the freshmen plebs, the sophomores youngsters.

Synonyms

• prole, plebe, plebeian

Antonyms

• toff, posho

Related terms

• plebe, plebeian, plebs

Translations

Adjective

pleb (not comparable)

1. Of or concerning the lower class of a society.
2. (derogatory) Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.

References

• “pleb, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2006

Anagrams

• BPEL, blep, pelB

English

Etymology

From Canadian French, from French poilu (“hairy”). Doublet of poilu.

Noun

plew (plural plews)

1. (Canada, US) beaver pelt
   • 1967, John Arkas Hawgood, America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement, page 96

     The cured "plew" of the adult beaver weighed about a pound and a half and at best would fetch from four to six dollars a pound at the mountain rendezvous

   • 2001, Armstrong Sperry, Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe page 7

     "The days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled. "The beaver trade's rubbed out, Lank.

   • 2005, Ralph Moody, Stanley Galli, Kit Carson And The Wild Frontier, Page 46

     The price for a pint was a beaver plew or an Indian buffalo robe. Coffee and gunpowder were a plew or a robe a pound, blankets fifteen plews apiece,

Anagrams

• Welp, welp

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?f/

Noun

plew f

1. genitive plural of plewa