lowlifen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈləʊlʌɪf/, U.S.

/ˈloʊˌlaɪf/

Inflections: Plural lowlifes, (rare) lowlives;

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: low adj., life n.

Etymology: < low adj. + life n.In sense A. 2b (especially in early use) frequently occurring in representations of the speech of Jewish characters, although no direct model appears to exist in Yiddish.

A. n.

1. Usually in form low life. The social world of the lower classes; poor or humble society. In later use typically with the implication of coarseness, squalor, or disreputable behaviour. Cf. low-living adj. and n. (b) at low adv. Compounds 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [noun]

lowerc1175

afterlingc1275

smalla1325

nethererc1443

undermana1661

lowlife1712

vulgar1763

vulgarian1809

rank outsider1869

low man on the totem1956

1712 Spectator 1 52 These Laws were enacted by..Artizans and Mechanicks..; and..there is something in them which gives us a pretty Picture of low Life.

1784 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 580/1 Such greatness of mind is rare to be found in low life in any country.

1821 Edinb. Mag. May 436/2 The scenes in Goldsmith's Alehouse, &c. are like the finest Dutch pictures of low life.

1847 T. H. Fielding Knowl. & Restoration Old Paintings 183 His [sc. Adrian Brouwer's] subjects were always taken from low life, as conversations of peasants, their feasts.., drunken quarrels, [etc.].

1939 Life 4 Dec. 48/2 (caption) Society swells visit Nick's saloon for a taste of low life.

2003 C. Wiegand F. Fellini iii. 64 A poet of Roman low life, Pasolini..[pays] particular attention to the dialect spoken by the prostitutes.

a. With plural agreement. Frequently with the. Lowlife people (see sense B. 1) as a class.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > collectively

smalla1325

simplea1375

riff-raffc1475

lowly1547

little folk1580

little people1699

lowlife1820

1820 W. Hazlitt in London Mag. Sept. 254/1 The conversation of low life is nothing but rudeness. They contradict you without giving a reason.

1856 Eclectic Mag. Oct. 223/2 To one portion of the ‘low life’ of London, that portion which coins its soul for drachmas,..we can only allude.

1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 7 It would be an error to conclude that such songs are found only among the low-life.

1986 Cincinnati Mag. Mar. 6/2 Politicians.., magazine editors and other lowlife.

2005 J. Singleton Skinny B, Skaz & Me xii. 182 Drugged up most of them. Bloody low life. They don't want rehab. They want..a right arse kicking.

b. A despicable or contemptible person, esp. one involved in criminal activity. Also as a term of abuse. Cf. low-lifer n.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person

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filec1300

dogc1330

ribald1340

waynouna1350

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land-leaper1377

triflera1382

brothelc1390

javelc1400

leftc1400

lorerc1400

shackerellc1420

brethel1440

never-thrift1440

vagrant1444

ne'er-thrifta1450

never-thrivinga1450

nebulona1475

breelc1485

naughty pack?1534

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carrion1547

slim1548

unsel155.

pelf1551

shifterc1562

rag1566

wandrel?1567

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baggage1594

roly-poly1602

bash-rag1603

arrant1605

ragabash?1609

flabergullion1611

hilding1611

hard bargain1612

slubberdegullion1612

vauneant1621

knick-knacker1622

idle-pack1624

slabberdegullion1653

thimble-maker1654

whiffler1659

never-do-well1664

good-for-nought1671

ne'er-be-good1675

shack1682

vagabond1686

shabaroon1699

shag-bag1699

houndsfoot1710

ne'er-do-well1737

trumpery1738

rap1742

hallion1789

scamp1808

waffie1808

ne'er-do-good1814

vaurien1829

sculpin1834

shicer1846

good-for-nothing1847

wastrel1847

scallywag1848

shack-bag1855

beat1865

toe-rag1875

rodney1877

toe-ragger1896

low-lifer1902

punk1904

lowlife1909

ringtail1916

git1939

no-hoper1944

schlub1950

piss artist1962

dead leg1964

1909 Sat. Evening Post 11 Dec. 31/3 ‘Yes,’ Goldblatt replied... ‘That lowlife has got a wife. But who or what she is nobody don't know.’

1910 Western Monthly Oct. 39/2 ‘Oi, oi, oi,’ he moaned, tugging at his beard. ‘Oh, them low lifes, them loafers, them robbers!’

1920 ‘H. Hall’ Egan i. 18 You great big bluff! You great big bum! Lowlife!

1959 H. Pinter Birthday Party (1960) iii. 50 Keep an eye open for low-lives, for schnorrers and for layabouts.

2011 D. Magowan Gerrity's Law 5 His parents were lowlifes and he was raised as a lowlife.

B. adj.

1. Of a person: of low social status, lower-class; coarse, vulgar, disreputable; (later also) despicable, contemptible.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective]

carlisha1240

lewdc1380

carlc1450

villain1483

ruffian1528

shake-ragged1550

porterlike1568

popular1583

ungracious1584

ordinarya1586

tapsterly1589

mechanic1598

round-headed1598

base-like1600

strummell-patch1600

porterly1603

scrubbing1603

vernaculous1607

plebeian1615

reptile1653

proletarian1663

mobbish1695

low1725

terraefilial1745

low-lifed1747

Whitechapel1785

lowlife1794

boweryish1846

gutter1849

bowery1852

lowish1886

swab1914

lumpen1944

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible

unworthc893

unwrastc893

littleOE

narrow-hearteda1200

wretcha1200

unworthya1240

wretchedc1250

un-i-wrastc1275

bad1276

lechera1300

feeblea1325

despisablea1340

villain1340

contemptiblec1384

lousyc1386

caitiff1393

brothelyc1400

roinousa1425

poor1425

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filthy1533

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beggary1542

scald1542

shitten?1545

disdainfula1547

contemptuous1549

despicable1553

skit-brained?1553

contemniblea1555

vile1560

sluttish1561

queer1567

scornful1570

scallardc1575

tinkerly?1576

worthless1576

beggarly?1577

paltry1578

halfpenny1579

dog bolt1580

pitiful1582

sneaking1582

triobolar1585

wormisha1586

baddy1586

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packstaff1598

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disparageable1648

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unestimable1656

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piteous1667

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snotty-nosed1682

mucky1683

bollocky1694

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scaldeda1704

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motherfucking1890

snidey1890

pilgarlicky1894

shitass1895

shoddy1918

yah boo1921

bitching1929

shit-faced1932

turdish1936

fricking1937

jerk-off1937

chickenshit1940

sheg-up1941

snot-nosed1941

jerky1944

mother-loving1948

scroungy1948

fecking1952

pissant1952

shit-kicking1953

shit-eating1956

bumboclaat1957

rassclaat1957

shit-headed1959

farkakte1960

shithouse1966

daggy1967

dipshit1968

scuzzy1969

bloodclaat1971

bitch ass1972

wanky1972

streelish1974

twatty1975

twattish1976

dweeby1988

douchey1991

wank1991

cockish1996

1725 ‘C. Comb-Brush’ Every Man mind his Own Business 30 Thus did this low Life Lady apply her favourite Phrase so oddly, that the Ladies at our end of the Town have nick-nam'd her the Lady in Life.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. vi. 207 There was always something in those low-life Creatures which must eternally distinguish them from their Betters.

1794 ‘P. Pindar’ Pathetic Odes 28 Behold Saint Crispin's picture, strange to tell, The low-life cobbler's tutelary Saint.

1827 Vade-mecum India to Europe by way of Egypt 48 The English vessels to be met with are all of the worst sort.., and commanded by very low-life men.

1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus 95 The peculiar stave by which a modern low-life Blondel endeavours to attract notice.

1910 G. B. Shaw Brieux 16 Servants, solicitors, and other low life personages.

1964 Eng. Stud. 45 368 Could minor low-life characters speak at once so feelingly and with our own voice, to their mistress, at a tragic climax?

2003 N. Rawles Crawfish Dreams (2004) ii. 28 I let some lowlife white criminals drive me from my home in Louisiana.

2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of people of low social status, or people regarded as vulgar or disreputable; (of a place) frequented or inhabited by such people.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [adjective]

low-bred1599

dunghilled1600

ungenteel1633

underbred1650

half-bred1694

ingenteel1694

ungentlemanlike1719

lowlife1728

under-degreed1748

lower class1812

downstairs1819

low-class1836

wrong1859

(as) common as dirt (also muck)1877

plebbish1928

downscale1930

non-U1954

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [adjective] > of ill repute

unhonesta1382

ill-famed1483

scoury?a1513

renownless1552

uncredited1586

bankrupt1601

discredited1605

disopinioned1622

creditless1660

unreputable1688

irreputable1709

low-lifed?1750

louche1819

characterless1825

disreputable1828

pikey1838

shady1862

lowlife1939

sleazoid1976

1728 J. Dalton Genuine Narr. Street Robberies 25 They..carried a Bottle of that Low-Life Liquor Gin, to keep their Hearts up, under the Low-Life Performance.

1762 E. Farneworth in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. I. Pref. p. vi The language in general, is..full of vulgarisms, quaint sayings, and what the Italians call il modo basso, or low-life expression.

1861 M. B. Chesnut Diary 8 Dec. in C. V. Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) xi. 260 Mr. Shuford, he goes fer low-life things—hurting people's feelings.

1880 Amer. Bookseller 1 Sept. 168/2 ‘Rogues and Vagabonds’ is the new low-life story which Mr. George R. Sims has begun.

1939 Time 18 Dec. 21/1 There can be nothing very awful about even such ostentatiously ‘low-life’ dives as the Nut Club in Greek Street.

1972 Listener 10 Aug. 184/3 Low-life action and local vernacular.

2011 C. Rearick Paris Dreams, Paris Memories i. 31 Guidebooks and memoirs..described some of the lowlife dens as fascinating attractions to be visited.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lowlife
释义	lowlifen.adj. Brit. /ˈləʊlʌɪf/, U.S. /ˈloʊˌlaɪf/ Inflections: Plural lowlifes, (rare) lowlives; Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: low adj., life n. Etymology: < low adj. + life n.In sense A. 2b (especially in early use) frequently occurring in representations of the speech of Jewish characters, although no direct model appears to exist in Yiddish. A. n. 1. Usually in form low life. The social world of the lower classes; poor or humble society. In later use typically with the implication of coarseness, squalor, or disreputable behaviour. Cf. low-living adj. and n. (b) at low adv. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [noun] lowerc1175 afterlingc1275 smalla1325 nethererc1443 undermana1661 lowlife1712 vulgar1763 vulgarian1809 rank outsider1869 low man on the totem1956 1712 Spectator 1 52 These Laws were enacted by..Artizans and Mechanicks..; and..there is something in them which gives us a pretty Picture of low Life. 1784 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 580/1 Such greatness of mind is rare to be found in low life in any country. 1821 Edinb. Mag. May 436/2 The scenes in Goldsmith's Alehouse, &c. are like the finest Dutch pictures of low life. 1847 T. H. Fielding Knowl. & Restoration Old Paintings 183 His [sc. Adrian Brouwer's] subjects were always taken from low life, as conversations of peasants, their feasts.., drunken quarrels, [etc.]. 1939 Life 4 Dec. 48/2 (caption) Society swells visit Nick's saloon for a taste of low life. 2003 C. Wiegand F. Fellini iii. 64 A poet of Roman low life, Pasolini..[pays] particular attention to the dialect spoken by the prostitutes. 2. a. With plural agreement. Frequently with the. Lowlife people (see sense B. 1) as a class. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > collectively smalla1325 simplea1375 riff-raffc1475 lowly1547 little folk1580 little people1699 lowlife1820 1820 W. Hazlitt in London Mag. Sept. 254/1 The conversation of low life is nothing but rudeness. They contradict you without giving a reason. 1856 Eclectic Mag. Oct. 223/2 To one portion of the ‘low life’ of London, that portion which coins its soul for drachmas,..we can only allude. 1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 7 It would be an error to conclude that such songs are found only among the low-life. 1986 Cincinnati Mag. Mar. 6/2 Politicians.., magazine editors and other lowlife. 2005 J. Singleton Skinny B, Skaz & Me xii. 182 Drugged up most of them. Bloody low life. They don't want rehab. They want..a right arse kicking. b. A despicable or contemptible person, esp. one involved in criminal activity. Also as a term of abuse. Cf. low-lifer n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person brethelingc1275 filec1300 dogc1330 ribald1340 waynouna1350 waster1352 lorel1362 losel1362 land-leaper1377 triflera1382 brothelc1390 javelc1400 leftc1400 lorerc1400 shackerellc1420 brethel1440 never-thrift1440 vagrant1444 ne'er-thrifta1450 never-thrivinga1450 nebulona1475 breelc1485 naughty pack?1534 brathel1542 carrion1547 slim1548 unsel155. pelf1551 shifterc1562 rag1566 wandrel?1567 land-loper1570 nothing-worth1580 baggage1594 roly-poly1602 bash-rag1603 arrant1605 ragabash?1609 flabergullion1611 hilding1611 hard bargain1612 slubberdegullion1612 vauneant1621 knick-knacker1622 idle-pack1624 slabberdegullion1653 thimble-maker1654 whiffler1659 never-do-well1664 good-for-nought1671 ne'er-be-good1675 shack1682 vagabond1686 shabaroon1699 shag-bag1699 houndsfoot1710 ne'er-do-well1737 trumpery1738 rap1742 hallion1789 scamp1808 waffie1808 ne'er-do-good1814 vaurien1829 sculpin1834 shicer1846 good-for-nothing1847 wastrel1847 scallywag1848 shack-bag1855 beat1865 toe-rag1875 rodney1877 toe-ragger1896 low-lifer1902 punk1904 lowlife1909 ringtail1916 git1939 no-hoper1944 schlub1950 piss artist1962 dead leg1964 1909 Sat. Evening Post 11 Dec. 31/3 ‘Yes,’ Goldblatt replied... ‘That lowlife has got a wife. But who or what she is nobody don't know.’ 1910 Western Monthly Oct. 39/2 ‘Oi, oi, oi,’ he moaned, tugging at his beard. ‘Oh, them low lifes, them loafers, them robbers!’ 1920 ‘H. Hall’ Egan i. 18 You great big bluff! You great big bum! Lowlife! 1959 H. Pinter Birthday Party (1960) iii. 50 Keep an eye open for low-lives, for schnorrers and for layabouts. 2011 D. Magowan Gerrity's Law 5 His parents were lowlifes and he was raised as a lowlife. B. adj. 1. Of a person: of low social status, lower-class; coarse, vulgar, disreputable; (later also) despicable, contemptible. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective] carlisha1240 lewdc1380 carlc1450 villain1483 ruffian1528 shake-ragged1550 porterlike1568 popular1583 ungracious1584 ordinarya1586 tapsterly1589 mechanic1598 round-headed1598 base-like1600 strummell-patch1600 porterly1603 scrubbing1603 vernaculous1607 plebeian1615 reptile1653 proletarian1663 mobbish1695 low1725 terraefilial1745 low-lifed1747 Whitechapel1785 lowlife1794 boweryish1846 gutter1849 bowery1852 lowish1886 swab1914 lumpen1944 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible unworthc893 unwrastc893 littleOE narrow-hearteda1200 wretcha1200 unworthya1240 wretchedc1250 un-i-wrastc1275 bad1276 lechera1300 feeblea1325 despisablea1340 villain1340 contemptiblec1384 lousyc1386 caitiff1393 brothelyc1400 roinousa1425 poor1425 sevenpennyc1475 nasty1477 peakish1519 filthy1533 despectuous1541 beggary1542 scald1542 shitten?1545 disdainfula1547 contemptuous1549 despicable1553 skit-brained?1553 contemniblea1555 vile1560 sluttish1561 queer1567 scornful1570 scallardc1575 tinkerly?1576 worthless1576 beggarly?1577 paltry1578 halfpenny1579 dog bolt1580 pitiful1582 sneaking1582 triobolar1585 wormisha1586 baddy1586 dudgeon1592 measled1596 packstaff1598 roguey1598 roguish1601 contemptful1608 grovelling1608 lightly1608 disdainable1611 purulent1611 snotty-nose1622 vilipendious1630 cittern-headed1638 wormy1640 pissabed1643 triobolary1644 disparageable1648 blue-bellied1652 unestimable1656 scullion1658 piteous1667 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 snotty1681 snotty-nosed1682 mucky1683 bollocky1694 scoundrel1700 scaldeda1704 sneaking1703 ficulnean1716 unsolid1731 pitiable1753 scrubby1754 inimitable1798 scrubbish1798 worm-likea1807 small1824 lowlife1827 ketty1828 skunkish1831 yellow-bellied1833 scaly1843 cockroachya1845 wutless1853 nigger1859 trashy1862 low-down1872 cruddy1877 shitty1879 tinhorn1886 blithering1889 motherfucking1890 snidey1890 pilgarlicky1894 shitass1895 shoddy1918 yah boo1921 bitching1929 shit-faced1932 turdish1936 fricking1937 jerk-off1937 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 snot-nosed1941 jerky1944 mother-loving1948 scroungy1948 fecking1952 pissant1952 shit-kicking1953 shit-eating1956 bumboclaat1957 rassclaat1957 shit-headed1959 farkakte1960 shithouse1966 daggy1967 dipshit1968 scuzzy1969 bloodclaat1971 bitch ass1972 wanky1972 streelish1974 twatty1975 twattish1976 dweeby1988 douchey1991 wank1991 cockish1996 1725 ‘C. Comb-Brush’ Every Man mind his Own Business 30 Thus did this low Life Lady apply her favourite Phrase so oddly, that the Ladies at our end of the Town have nick-nam'd her the Lady in Life. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. vi. 207 There was always something in those low-life Creatures which must eternally distinguish them from their Betters. 1794 ‘P. Pindar’ Pathetic Odes 28 Behold Saint Crispin's picture, strange to tell, The low-life cobbler's tutelary Saint. 1827 Vade-mecum India to Europe by way of Egypt 48 The English vessels to be met with are all of the worst sort.., and commanded by very low-life men. 1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus 95 The peculiar stave by which a modern low-life Blondel endeavours to attract notice. 1910 G. B. Shaw Brieux 16 Servants, solicitors, and other low life personages. 1964 Eng. Stud. 45 368 Could minor low-life characters speak at once so feelingly and with our own voice, to their mistress, at a tragic climax? 2003 N. Rawles Crawfish Dreams (2004) ii. 28 I let some lowlife white criminals drive me from my home in Louisiana. 2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of people of low social status, or people regarded as vulgar or disreputable; (of a place) frequented or inhabited by such people. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [adjective] low-bred1599 dunghilled1600 ungenteel1633 underbred1650 half-bred1694 ingenteel1694 ungentlemanlike1719 lowlife1728 under-degreed1748 lower class1812 downstairs1819 low-class1836 wrong1859 (as) common as dirt (also muck)1877 plebbish1928 downscale1930 non-U1954 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [adjective] > of ill repute unhonesta1382 ill-famed1483 scoury?a1513 renownless1552 uncredited1586 bankrupt1601 discredited1605 disopinioned1622 creditless1660 unreputable1688 irreputable1709 low-lifed?1750 louche1819 characterless1825 disreputable1828 pikey1838 shady1862 lowlife1939 sleazoid1976 1728 J. Dalton Genuine Narr. Street Robberies 25 They..carried a Bottle of that Low-Life Liquor Gin, to keep their Hearts up, under the Low-Life Performance. 1762 E. Farneworth in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. I. Pref. p. vi The language in general, is..full of vulgarisms, quaint sayings, and what the Italians call il modo basso, or low-life expression. 1861 M. B. Chesnut Diary 8 Dec. in C. V. Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) xi. 260 Mr. Shuford, he goes fer low-life things—hurting people's feelings. 1880 Amer. Bookseller 1 Sept. 168/2 ‘Rogues and Vagabonds’ is the new low-life story which Mr. George R. Sims has begun. 1939 Time 18 Dec. 21/1 There can be nothing very awful about even such ostentatiously ‘low-life’ dives as the Nut Club in Greek Street. 1972 Listener 10 Aug. 184/3 Low-life action and local vernacular. 2011 C. Rearick Paris Dreams, Paris Memories i. 31 Guidebooks and memoirs..described some of the lowlife dens as fascinating attractions to be visited. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1712
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