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ˈsub-man
[sub- 14 b.]
A man of markedly inferior development or capacities.
1921R. A. Freeman Social Decay & Regeneration 248 As we are accustomed to speak of a man whose bodily and mental qualities are such as to lift him far above the common level, as a super-man, so we may conveniently refer to one who is to a like degree below the average as a sub-man. 1939Dylan Thomas Let. 14 Sept. (1966) 237 Submen from the islands of crabs. 1951N. M. Gunn Well at World's End xxix. 277 The Cromagnons, those sub-men who painted their bisons on the walls of far interior caves. 1964Punch 28 Oct. 655/2 Peter Cook with his sub-man monologues. 1981P. Audemars Gone to her Death vii. 123 What do they do now? Send these apes—these sub-men—to a reform school. |