low-downadv.adj.

Brit.

/ˌləʊˈdaʊn/, U.S.

/ˈloʊˌdaʊn/

Forms: see low adj. and n.² and down adv.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: low adv., low adj., down adv.

Etymology: < either low adv. or low adj. + down adv.

A. adv.

1. Usually in form low down. Down to a low place or position; (more generally) very low (in various senses of low adv.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > low position > [adverb]

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c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1223 Hir eyen caste she ful lowe adown.]

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2254 (MED) Fortune..With þe whirlyng of hir whele aboute..caused wrecches ful lowe doun to loute.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 3579 (MED) Titan gan go lowe Doun by þe arche of his daies bowe Fer in-to weste.

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 12 Thou castest hem lowe doun & brekest their neckes.

?1500 Contemplacyon Shedynge Blood Ihesu Cryste (de Worde) sig. aiiij Remembre how he shrynketh trembleth & quaketh, & stoupeth lowe downe in all his body.

1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. 311 I..Prostratis my seruice law doun at ȝour feit.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 288 So high as heav'd the tumid Hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom.

1689 J. Locke Civil Govt. in Two Treat. Govt. (1694) ii. v. §38. 194 In that part of the World which was first inhabited,..even as low down as Abrahams time, they wandred with their Flocks and their Herds..freely up and down.

a1778 A. M. Toplady Wks. (1794) V. 470 The statue of this she-pope remained, in the cathedral church of Sienna, so low down, as until about the year 1677.

1825 Edinb. Mag. May 596/1 I stooped low down, and, in order to make myself still shorter, I bent my knees a great deal.

1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting 83 The smoothing-plane must be set very fine, and the upper iron should come quite low down towards the edge.

1892 R. Le Gallienne Eng. Poems 22 O, I throw me low down on the ground And I bury my face in their death.

1917 B.E.F. Times 5 Mar. in Wipers Times: Compl. Series (2006) 176/2 Bend your ear low down to hear our whispers.

1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness ii. viii. 179 The sights were set very low down on the rib.

2007 W. C. Finnegan & A. McGurk Care of Cancer Patient 260 Bowing low down in the direction of Mecca (south-east in the UK).

2. In a low-down manner (see senses B. 2c, B. 3).

ΚΠ

1858 Hutchings' Calif. Mag. Aug. 85 Dreese played very ‘low down’ or, in other words, cheated plaintiff.

1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy v. ix. 323 You've been..playin' it very low down on my moral and religious nature, and generally ringin' in a cold deck on my spiritual condition.

1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 20 They had played it rather low down on the preacher.

1918 Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Aug. 17/2 After I'd been in Hospital for about three weeks, they treated me pretty low down, I thought—took me off ‘light diet’ and sent me into the ‘bull ring’ for meals.

1935 N. E. Williams His Hi de Highness of Ho de Ho 35 Even white musicians will say ‘growl it’ to a trumpet player when they are asking him to play it ‘lowdown’ or ‘dirty’.

2003 Philadelphia Enquirer (Nexis) 22 Mar. d2 Hornist Adam Unsworth..played low-down while never letting his tone become unfocused or ugly.

B. adj.

1. Very low (in various senses of low adj.); far down.

a. In predicative use. Usually in form low down.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > [adjective]

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the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective]

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1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Demissus, humble, lowe downe.

?1570 T. Drant Two Serm. sig. G.v^v We make seuenty seuen low downe crouching curtesies to euery noble man.

1647 S. Rutherford Christ Dying 305 If the sun were as low down as the clouds, it should, with heat, burn up every green herb, tree, rose, flower, and our bodies.

1765 J. Memis Midwife's Pocket-compan. ii. iii. 142 When the head is low down..we proceed in the latter end of the delivery thus.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. Dec. 448 The os uteri [was] low down, lax, and dilated about the size of half a crown.

a1860 J. A. Alexander Gospel Jesus Christ (1861) xv. 201 They put the date of Messiah's advent too low down.

1870 C. Kingsley in Good Words 205/2 To see Sirius,..not, as in our dog-days, low down on the horizon, but riding high in heaven.

1907 G. Massey Anc. Egypt I. v. 300 When the winter-sun was low down in the solstice it was southing slowly through the deep outside the earth.

2001 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 28 July If your hair is long, make a ponytail very low down on the nape of your neck, then coil it into a chignon.

b. attributive.With quot. 1850, cf. low-downer n. (a) at Derivatives.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > very low or far below

low-down1850

far-down1911

1850 Congress. Globe 25 Apr. 821/1 The ‘low-down’ Virginia Democracy had to yield to the western mountain Democracy.

1882 Daily Tel. 24 June Lucas effected a beautiful low-down catch.

1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 604/2 The closet..is a syphon jet bowl with a low down tank and seat.

1989 J. Chase Evening Wolves 44 When I sat up and looked out the window the low-down sun stabbed me in the eye.

2010 P. R. Dasen & R. C. Mishra Devel. Geocentric Spatial Lang. & Cognition iii. 98 The general view is either of the high-up mountains or the low-down valley.

2. slang (originally U.S.). Usually attributive.

a. Of a person: deserving of contempt; disreputable, worthless; (also) of a low social class. Originally used depreciatively of the poor white population of the American South.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective]

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

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

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1865 Nation (N.Y.) 1 586 His manners and conversation, showed him to be a good-deal above that class commonly called ‘low-down, triflin' people’, or poor white trash.

1868 Putnam's Mag. June 704 That wretched caste commonly spoken of as the ‘mean whites’, or the ‘poor white folksy’, but in my district as the ‘low-down people’.

1881 G. W. Cable Mme. Delphine 104 It was so much better than he could have expected from his ‘low-down’ relative.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn viii. 69 People would call me a low down Ablitionist [sic] and despise me for keeping mum.

1924 in W. C. Handy Treasury of Blues (1949) 144 We'll I am hinkty and I'm low down too.

1968 H. R. F. Keating Inspector Ghote hunts Peacock vii. 98 Your precious Peacock..was nothing but a low-down little drugger.

2012 Texas Monthly (Nexis) June 260 The greedy, low-down scoundrel who would charge for a disposable makeshift paper spittoon.

b. Of, relating to, or regarded as characteristic of this type of person.

ΘΚΠ

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

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1872 W. D. Howells Let. 13 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1979) I. 407 Of coarse-hand, low-down reminiscences of the stage, we have had enough.

1882 J. D. McCabe New York 563 The street is lined with long rows of rum-shops, rat-pits, low-down gambling dens, and thieves' dens.

1888 E. Eggleston Graysons xviii. 197 Her archaic speech was perhaps a shade better than the ‘low-down’ language of Broad Run.

1950 J. Lait & L. Mortimer Chicago Confidential iv. 304 Behind the Yards , descriptive of something lowdown or cheap.

1997 Loaded Sept. 22 I'd wandered aimlessly into some low-down Soho watering hole.

c. Mean and unfair; underhand, cheating.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > underhand or sneaky

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1905 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Jan. 17/1 The squatter had maliciously adopted the low-down practice of banging his horses' tails before they were broken.

1912 G. Ade Knocking Neighbors 123 Rufus was sinfully Rich, but nevertheless Detestable, because his Family had drilled into him the low-down Habit of getting the Jump on the Other Fellow.

1996 Minx Nov. 36/1 That's when I saw the dirty, low-down rat—sitting in the corner of the bar whispering sweet nothings into some woman's ear.

2012 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 29 Feb. a4 They're dismayed that someone would have attempted to trick people into missing their chance to vote... ‘I think it's a low-down trick. It's quite reprehensible.’

3. Music. Chiefly with reference to jazz or blues: raw or uncompromising in terms of style, lyrical content, or performance; rough, unpolished; having a rasping or otherwise distorted sound. Now usually in form lowdown.Usually intended as a positive or appreciative description.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of

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barrel-house1926

New Orleans1926

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solid1935

traditional jazz1935

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Kansas City1946

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West Coast1949

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Afro-Latin1958

1922 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 19 Feb. 8/3 From that time on the highest compliment you could pay to the music at the party has been to mutter admiringly, ‘That's a low-down band.’

1959 Punch 14 Oct. 319 The swing-cats sway, the hipsters tap their feet As Victor pounds his low-down crazy beat.

1968 Blues Unlimited Sept. 10 John Lee Hooker comes here a lot, an' he plays some really lowdown things.

1994 Q Aug. 109/3 But the lengthy final straight is an inconsistent grab-bag of lowdown, sleazy, horn-infested swamp rock.

2004 Cadence Aug. 113/1 Sebastiani's bass is often lowdown and greasy.

Derivatives

ˈlow-downer n. U.S. slang †(a) a person from the lowlands of Virginia; cf. tuckahoe n. 3 (obsolete rare); (b) derogatory (now chiefly historical) a member of the poor white population of the American South; cf. sense B. 2 and trash n.¹ 4.

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

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white trash1821

low-downer1883

1851 Daily Scioto (Ohio) Gaz. 8 Apr. The Low-downers, of course, go for the old system, of taking the slave population into account.

1868 Putnam's Mag. June 706/1 When..candidates refreshed their adherents by the barrelfull, the low-downer enjoyed his periodical benders without expense.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 131 They are at least known by a generic byword, as Poor Whites or Low-downers.

1908 A. Hunter Huntsman in South iii. 69 Two families were residents of the cabin, and were of that kind known as ‘Low-downers’, utterly ignorant and illiterate.

1987 W. C. Wade Fiery Cross (1998) i. ii. 58 There is evidence, however, that not even all ‘low-downers’ entered the Klan willingly.

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

单词	low-down
释义	low-downadv.adj. Brit. /ˌləʊˈdaʊn/, U.S. /ˈloʊˌdaʊn/ Forms: see low adj. and n.² and down adv. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: low adv., low adj., down adv. Etymology: < either low adv. or low adj. + down adv. A. adv. 1. Usually in form low down. Down to a low place or position; (more generally) very low (in various senses of low adv.). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > low position > [adverb] netherOE downlOE downwardc1225 lowlyc1330 downwards?a1425 low-downc1425 abasea1450 lowera1475 baselya1500 humbly1746 c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1223 Hir eyen caste she ful lowe adown.] c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2254 (MED) Fortune..With þe whirlyng of hir whele aboute..caused wrecches ful lowe doun to loute. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 3579 (MED) Titan gan go lowe Doun by þe arche of his daies bowe Fer in-to weste. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 12 Thou castest hem lowe doun & brekest their neckes. ?1500 Contemplacyon Shedynge Blood Ihesu Cryste (de Worde) sig. aiiij Remembre how he shrynketh trembleth & quaketh, & stoupeth lowe downe in all his body. 1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. 311 I..Prostratis my seruice law doun at ȝour feit. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 288 So high as heav'd the tumid Hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom. View more context for this quotation 1689 J. Locke Civil Govt. in Two Treat. Govt. (1694) ii. v. §38. 194 In that part of the World which was first inhabited,..even as low down as Abrahams time, they wandred with their Flocks and their Herds..freely up and down. a1778 A. M. Toplady Wks. (1794) V. 470 The statue of this she-pope remained, in the cathedral church of Sienna, so low down, as until about the year 1677. 1825 Edinb. Mag. May 596/1 I stooped low down, and, in order to make myself still shorter, I bent my knees a great deal. 1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting 83 The smoothing-plane must be set very fine, and the upper iron should come quite low down towards the edge. 1892 R. Le Gallienne Eng. Poems 22 O, I throw me low down on the ground And I bury my face in their death. 1917 B.E.F. Times 5 Mar. in Wipers Times: Compl. Series (2006) 176/2 Bend your ear low down to hear our whispers. 1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness ii. viii. 179 The sights were set very low down on the rib. 2007 W. C. Finnegan & A. McGurk Care of Cancer Patient 260 Bowing low down in the direction of Mecca (south-east in the UK). 2. In a low-down manner (see senses B. 2c, B. 3). ΚΠ 1858 Hutchings' Calif. Mag. Aug. 85 Dreese played very ‘low down’ or, in other words, cheated plaintiff. 1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy v. ix. 323 You've been..playin' it very low down on my moral and religious nature, and generally ringin' in a cold deck on my spiritual condition. 1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 20 They had played it rather low down on the preacher. 1918 Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Aug. 17/2 After I'd been in Hospital for about three weeks, they treated me pretty low down, I thought—took me off ‘light diet’ and sent me into the ‘bull ring’ for meals. 1935 N. E. Williams His Hi de Highness of Ho de Ho 35 Even white musicians will say ‘growl it’ to a trumpet player when they are asking him to play it ‘lowdown’ or ‘dirty’. 2003 Philadelphia Enquirer (Nexis) 22 Mar. d2 Hornist Adam Unsworth..played low-down while never letting his tone become unfocused or ugly. B. adj. 1. Very low (in various senses of low adj.); far down. a. In predicative use. Usually in form low down. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > [adjective] heanc825 daftc1000 edmedec1000 edmodc1000 edmodeda1175 sheepishc1175 deftc1220 edmodi?c1225 lowc1225 humblec1250 beienlichc1275 buxoma1300 meekc1325 benign1377 lowlya1382 contemptiblec1384 pridelessc1395 humil1488 low-down1548 unproud1570 demiss1572 unpuffed1577 afflicted1590 unselfdelicious1605 cottagely1653 unselfvaluing1668 simplified1721 demissivea1763 stateless1844 maiden-meek1847 vanityless1854 patronizable1884 the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] lowc1225 base?a1425 howea1500 low-down1548 humble1579 lowly1579 low-lying1809 low-level1845 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Demissus, humble, lowe downe. ?1570 T. Drant Two Serm. sig. G.v^v We make seuenty seuen low downe crouching curtesies to euery noble man. 1647 S. Rutherford Christ Dying 305 If the sun were as low down as the clouds, it should, with heat, burn up every green herb, tree, rose, flower, and our bodies. 1765 J. Memis Midwife's Pocket-compan. ii. iii. 142 When the head is low down..we proceed in the latter end of the delivery thus. 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. Dec. 448 The os uteri [was] low down, lax, and dilated about the size of half a crown. a1860 J. A. Alexander Gospel Jesus Christ (1861) xv. 201 They put the date of Messiah's advent too low down. 1870 C. Kingsley in Good Words 205/2 To see Sirius,..not, as in our dog-days, low down on the horizon, but riding high in heaven. 1907 G. Massey Anc. Egypt I. v. 300 When the winter-sun was low down in the solstice it was southing slowly through the deep outside the earth. 2001 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 28 July If your hair is long, make a ponytail very low down on the nape of your neck, then coil it into a chignon. b. attributive.With quot. 1850, cf. low-downer n. (a) at Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > very low or far below low-down1850 far-down1911 1850 Congress. Globe 25 Apr. 821/1 The ‘low-down’ Virginia Democracy had to yield to the western mountain Democracy. 1882 Daily Tel. 24 June Lucas effected a beautiful low-down catch. 1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 604/2 The closet..is a syphon jet bowl with a low down tank and seat. 1989 J. Chase Evening Wolves 44 When I sat up and looked out the window the low-down sun stabbed me in the eye. 2010 P. R. Dasen & R. C. Mishra Devel. Geocentric Spatial Lang. & Cognition iii. 98 The general view is either of the high-up mountains or the low-down valley. 2. slang (originally U.S.). Usually attributive. a. Of a person: deserving of contempt; disreputable, worthless; (also) of a low social class. Originally used depreciatively of the poor white population of the American South. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective] theowlikec1175 wickc1175 wretcha1200 lechera1300 vilea1300 feeblea1325 brothely1330 caitiffa1400 roinousa1425 basec1450 harlotry1486 filthy1533 brockish1546 vild1568 tinkerly?1576 scabbed?1577 miscreant1593 unnoble1593 slavish1597 rascally1600 roguish1601 sordidous1602 facinoriousa1616 scullion1658 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 scoundrel1681 scabby1712 verminating1720 small1824 low-down1865 verminiferous1895 ragtime1917 ribby1936 raunchy1937 scungy1966 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [adjective] leasteOE wokec897 littleOE lowc1175 eathlyc1200 smallc1275 simplec1300 meana1375 humblec1386 ignoble1447 servile1447 base1490 slighta1500 sober1533 silly1568 unresponsal1579 dunghilled1600 villainous1607 without name1611 woollena1616 dunghilly1616 unresponsible1629 under-stateda1661 low-down1865 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [adjective] draffsacked1548 sordid1596 dunghilly1616 proletarious1654 proletaneous1656 proletical1659 raff1761 raffish1795 proletarian1848 riff-raffy1850 proletary1854 low-down1865 underworld1929 lumpenproletarian1936 prole1938 nitty-gritty1948 1865 Nation (N.Y.) 1 586 His manners and conversation, showed him to be a good-deal above that class commonly called ‘low-down, triflin' people’, or poor white trash. 1868 Putnam's Mag. June 704 That wretched caste commonly spoken of as the ‘mean whites’, or the ‘poor white folksy’, but in my district as the ‘low-down people’. 1881 G. W. Cable Mme. Delphine 104 It was so much better than he could have expected from his ‘low-down’ relative. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn viii. 69 People would call me a low down Ablitionist [sic] and despise me for keeping mum. 1924 in W. C. Handy Treasury of Blues (1949) 144 We'll I am hinkty and I'm low down too. 1968 H. R. F. Keating Inspector Ghote hunts Peacock vii. 98 Your precious Peacock..was nothing but a low-down little drugger. 2012 Texas Monthly (Nexis) June 260 The greedy, low-down scoundrel who would charge for a disposable makeshift paper spittoon. b. Of, relating to, or regarded as characteristic of this type of person. ΘΚΠ 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 1872 W. D. Howells Let. 13 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1979) I. 407 Of coarse-hand, low-down reminiscences of the stage, we have had enough. 1882 J. D. McCabe New York 563 The street is lined with long rows of rum-shops, rat-pits, low-down gambling dens, and thieves' dens. 1888 E. Eggleston Graysons xviii. 197 Her archaic speech was perhaps a shade better than the ‘low-down’ language of Broad Run. 1950 J. Lait & L. Mortimer Chicago Confidential iv. 304 Behind the Yards , descriptive of something lowdown or cheap. 1997 Loaded Sept. 22 I'd wandered aimlessly into some low-down Soho watering hole. c. Mean and unfair; underhand, cheating. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > underhand or sneaky subornate1548 sneaking1582 sinistral1598 sinistruous1601 left-sided1607 left-handed1615 meeching1616 leer1631 backstabbing1803 sneaky1834 underhand1842 sneakish1864 underhanded1864 low-down1905 1905 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Jan. 17/1 The squatter had maliciously adopted the low-down practice of banging his horses' tails before they were broken. 1912 G. Ade Knocking Neighbors 123 Rufus was sinfully Rich, but nevertheless Detestable, because his Family had drilled into him the low-down Habit of getting the Jump on the Other Fellow. 1996 Minx Nov. 36/1 That's when I saw the dirty, low-down rat—sitting in the corner of the bar whispering sweet nothings into some woman's ear. 2012 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 29 Feb. a4 They're dismayed that someone would have attempted to trick people into missing their chance to vote... ‘I think it's a low-down trick. It's quite reprehensible.’ 3. Music. Chiefly with reference to jazz or blues: raw or uncompromising in terms of style, lyrical content, or performance; rough, unpolished; having a rasping or otherwise distorted sound. Now usually in form lowdown.Usually intended as a positive or appreciative description. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of Chicagoan1861 bad1897 hot1918 red-hot1918 soft1921 low-down1922 sweet1924 barrel-house1926 New Orleans1926 straight1926 crazy1927 dirty1927 hotcha1930 jungle1935 solid1935 traditional jazz1935 powerhouse1937 gutty1939 riffy1939 jivey1944 Kansas City1946 cool1948 West Coast1949 far-out1954 nutty1955 swinging1955 mainstream1957 Afro-Latin1958 1922 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 19 Feb. 8/3 From that time on the highest compliment you could pay to the music at the party has been to mutter admiringly, ‘That's a low-down band.’ 1959 Punch 14 Oct. 319 The swing-cats sway, the hipsters tap their feet As Victor pounds his low-down crazy beat. 1968 Blues Unlimited Sept. 10 John Lee Hooker comes here a lot, an' he plays some really lowdown things. 1994 Q Aug. 109/3 But the lengthy final straight is an inconsistent grab-bag of lowdown, sleazy, horn-infested swamp rock. 2004 Cadence Aug. 113/1 Sebastiani's bass is often lowdown and greasy. Derivatives ˈlow-downer n. U.S. slang †(a) a person from the lowlands of Virginia; cf. tuckahoe n. 3 (obsolete rare); (b) derogatory (now chiefly historical) a member of the poor white population of the American South; cf. sense B. 2 and trash n.¹ 4. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > collectively > specifically white whitea1398 white trash1821 low-downer1883 1851 Daily Scioto (Ohio) Gaz. 8 Apr. The Low-downers, of course, go for the old system, of taking the slave population into account. 1868 Putnam's Mag. June 706/1 When..candidates refreshed their adherents by the barrelfull, the low-downer enjoyed his periodical benders without expense. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 131 They are at least known by a generic byword, as Poor Whites or Low-downers. 1908 A. Hunter Huntsman in South iii. 69 Two families were residents of the cabin, and were of that kind known as ‘Low-downers’, utterly ignorant and illiterate. 1987 W. C. Wade Fiery Cross (1998) i. ii. 58 There is evidence, however, that not even all ‘low-downers’ entered the Klan willingly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.adj.c1425
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