lowbrown.adj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈləʊbraʊ/, U.S.

/ˈloʊˌbraʊ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: low adj., brow n.¹

Etymology: < low adj. + brow n.¹ Compare highbrow n. and earlier highbrow adj.

colloquial (originally U.S.). Frequently depreciative.In all senses contrasted with highbrow and middlebrow.

A. n.

1. A person who is not highly intellectual or cultured; one who has a taste for popular culture rather than rarefied artistic or intellectual matters.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [noun] > low-browism > lowbrow or middlebrow

lowbrow1901

middlebrow1912

lowbrow1913

mezzo-brow1925

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] > uncultured person

runt1602

home-bred1609

pork1645

Huna1744

savage1762

heathen1817

Philistine1825

stringy-bark1833

roughneck1834

yahoo1861

yapc1894

lowbrow1901

meatball1937

primitive1967

1901 G. Ade in Washington Post 17 Mar. 17/1 A mere Pandering to the Low Brows so as to keep up a steady Jingle at the Box Office.

1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap ix. 389 Ben..said this powerful play was too powerful for a bunch of low-brows like us.

1926 Glasgow Herald 13 Mar. 4 The highbrows will be overwhelmed..: the lowbrows will be unmoved.

1947 Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 52 The lowbrow, of course, divides all music into ‘classical’ and ‘jazz’.

1974 Times 30 Nov. 8/2 They considered themselves lowbrows and..preferred a rattling good yarn to all that highbrow twaddle.

2011 Hamilton (Ohio) Spectator (Nexis) 12 May (Go section) 17 Reading a self-help book before facing an audience of lowbrows, they stumble on a sure thing.

2. Usually with the. That which is lowbrow (sense B.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [noun] > low-browism > lowbrow or middlebrow

lowbrow1901

middlebrow1912

lowbrow1913

mezzo-brow1925

1913 H. Reed Football for Public & Player i. 12 The ‘highbrow’ of opposition [to football] is removed not more than a parasang or two from the ‘low brow’ of what has been too often overenthusiastic support.

1927 Daily Express 7 May 9/6 Our aim will be..to steer a course between the ‘highbrow’ and the ‘lowbrow’ in music.

1968 P. B. Austin On being Swedish xiii. 86 The sinister cleavage between highbrow and lowbrow..is here virtually unknown.

2004 Los Angeles Sept. 22/2 It's great to see your staff knows about the highbrow and lowbrow.

B. adj. (and adv.)

1. Of a person: not highly intellectual or cultured; having a taste for popular culture rather than rarefied artistic or intellectual matters.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective]

rudea1382

roida1400

borel1513

rustical?1532

illiberal1535

waste?1541

rusticc1550

illiterate1556

ruggedc1565

profane1568

unskilful1572

raw?1573

clownish1581

home-born1589

rough-hewn1593

unpolished1594

artless1598

home-bred1602

unbevelled1602

incult1628

museless1644

uncultivated1646

incultivateda1657

uncultivate1659

incultivate1661

unpolite1674

uncult1675

repent1684

uncultivated1725

uncultured1777

unenlightened1792

cultureless1824

sloven1856

philistinic1869

undoctrined1869

Philistine1871

Philistinish1871

roughneck1906

lowbrow1907

low-level1916

no-brow1922

bohunk1957

bakya1960

1907 Fort Worth (Texas) Telegram 16 Apr. 4/4 So I cheerfully took my place among the low-brow contingent at Glamor Grange.

1913 H. A. Franck Zone Policeman 88 i. 28 With all its excellences it would be unjust to complain that the Zone ‘Y.M.’ is a trifle ‘low-brow’ in its taste.

1928 Collier's 10 Nov. 30/1 The doctor who is sufficiently adventurous, or lowbrow, to visit a soda-fountain occasionally.

1992 N.Y. Times 12 July ii. 18/6 In music, Mr. Bush is avowedly lowbrow, displaying much passion for such country-and-western stars as Loretta Lynn, Lee Greenwood, [etc.].

2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 182 The guardians of high culture lambasted the low-brow upstart, who dared dilute the classics with his mawkish shtick.

2. Characteristic of or appropriate to a lowbrow person; appealing to the tastes of a lowbrow person; (of an artistic work, style, etc.) requiring little intellectual sophistication on the part of its audience; having no serious artistic value; (also more positively) not pretentious or excessively intellectual. Also as adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [adjective] > lowbrow or middlebrow

lowbrow1907

mezzo-brow1925

middlebrow1928

upper-middlebrow1956

1907 Duluth (Minnesota) News Tribune 27 June 6/3 It may be a low-brow idea of a good joke to throw glass on roads to be traversed by cyclist, automobiles and horses.

1909 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 4 Dec. 5/2 Some writers, of the low-brow style, break out in slangy phrases.

1923 Spectator 22 Sept. 391/2 Often the sole reason why he [sc. the man of genius] does not write ‘low-brow’ is because he cannot.

1927 Sunday Express 24 Apr. 2/2 He..picked up two newspapers, one of which is so highbrow that few people read it, and the other so lowbrow that I felt quite nervous.

1954 Life 19 Apr. 33/3 If you will pardon a very low-brow comment, I say ‘Phooey!’

1985 H. Carpenter Secret Gardens Prol. 2 Chapbooks, which played much the same part in society as lowbrow television drama does now.

2010 N.Y. Mag. 5 Apr. 39/1 Shake Shack..proved that the epicurious would stand in line for an hour to devour a highbrow spin on a lowbrow favorite.

Derivatives

ˈlowbrowism n. the condition of being lowbrow; lack of interest in intellectual or cultural matters; a manifestation of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [noun] > low-browism

lowbrowism1910

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun]

lewdness1362

inculture1653

uncultivatedness1764

incultivation1787

philistinism1793

uncultivation1796

unculture1812

muselessness1877

unliterariness1903

lowbrowism1910

1910 Green Bk. Album Jan. 77 If this be low-browism make the most of it!

1931 A. Huxley Music at Night 222 The snobbery of culture..has now to wrestle with an organized and active low-browism.

1971 Listener 2 Dec. 763/3 I am not at all arguing for a populist lowbrowism.

2001 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 Sept. a15 Judging by its test scores, lowbrowism still triumphs at that school.

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

单词	lowbrow
释义	lowbrown.adj.adv. Brit. /ˈləʊbraʊ/, U.S. /ˈloʊˌbraʊ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: low adj., brow n.¹ Etymology: < low adj. + brow n.¹ Compare highbrow n. and earlier highbrow adj. colloquial (originally U.S.). Frequently depreciative.In all senses contrasted with highbrow and middlebrow. A. n. 1. A person who is not highly intellectual or cultured; one who has a taste for popular culture rather than rarefied artistic or intellectual matters. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [noun] > low-browism > lowbrow or middlebrow lowbrow1901 middlebrow1912 lowbrow1913 mezzo-brow1925 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] > uncultured person runt1602 home-bred1609 pork1645 Huna1744 savage1762 heathen1817 Philistine1825 stringy-bark1833 roughneck1834 yahoo1861 yapc1894 lowbrow1901 meatball1937 primitive1967 1901 G. Ade in Washington Post 17 Mar. 17/1 A mere Pandering to the Low Brows so as to keep up a steady Jingle at the Box Office. 1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap ix. 389 Ben..said this powerful play was too powerful for a bunch of low-brows like us. 1926 Glasgow Herald 13 Mar. 4 The highbrows will be overwhelmed..: the lowbrows will be unmoved. 1947 Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 52 The lowbrow, of course, divides all music into ‘classical’ and ‘jazz’. 1974 Times 30 Nov. 8/2 They considered themselves lowbrows and..preferred a rattling good yarn to all that highbrow twaddle. 2011 Hamilton (Ohio) Spectator (Nexis) 12 May (Go section) 17 Reading a self-help book before facing an audience of lowbrows, they stumble on a sure thing. 2. Usually with the. That which is lowbrow (sense B.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [noun] > low-browism > lowbrow or middlebrow lowbrow1901 middlebrow1912 lowbrow1913 mezzo-brow1925 1913 H. Reed Football for Public & Player i. 12 The ‘highbrow’ of opposition [to football] is removed not more than a parasang or two from the ‘low brow’ of what has been too often overenthusiastic support. 1927 Daily Express 7 May 9/6 Our aim will be..to steer a course between the ‘highbrow’ and the ‘lowbrow’ in music. 1968 P. B. Austin On being Swedish xiii. 86 The sinister cleavage between highbrow and lowbrow..is here virtually unknown. 2004 Los Angeles Sept. 22/2 It's great to see your staff knows about the highbrow and lowbrow. B. adj. (and adv.) 1. Of a person: not highly intellectual or cultured; having a taste for popular culture rather than rarefied artistic or intellectual matters. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective] rudea1382 roida1400 borel1513 rustical?1532 illiberal1535 waste?1541 rusticc1550 illiterate1556 ruggedc1565 profane1568 unskilful1572 raw?1573 clownish1581 home-born1589 rough-hewn1593 unpolished1594 artless1598 home-bred1602 unbevelled1602 incult1628 museless1644 uncultivated1646 incultivateda1657 uncultivate1659 incultivate1661 unpolite1674 uncult1675 repent1684 uncultivated1725 uncultured1777 unenlightened1792 cultureless1824 sloven1856 philistinic1869 undoctrined1869 Philistine1871 Philistinish1871 roughneck1906 lowbrow1907 low-level1916 no-brow1922 bohunk1957 bakya1960 1907 Fort Worth (Texas) Telegram 16 Apr. 4/4 So I cheerfully took my place among the low-brow contingent at Glamor Grange. 1913 H. A. Franck Zone Policeman 88 i. 28 With all its excellences it would be unjust to complain that the Zone ‘Y.M.’ is a trifle ‘low-brow’ in its taste. 1928 Collier's 10 Nov. 30/1 The doctor who is sufficiently adventurous, or lowbrow, to visit a soda-fountain occasionally. 1992 N.Y. Times 12 July ii. 18/6 In music, Mr. Bush is avowedly lowbrow, displaying much passion for such country-and-western stars as Loretta Lynn, Lee Greenwood, [etc.]. 2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 182 The guardians of high culture lambasted the low-brow upstart, who dared dilute the classics with his mawkish shtick. 2. Characteristic of or appropriate to a lowbrow person; appealing to the tastes of a lowbrow person; (of an artistic work, style, etc.) requiring little intellectual sophistication on the part of its audience; having no serious artistic value; (also more positively) not pretentious or excessively intellectual. Also as adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [adjective] > lowbrow or middlebrow lowbrow1907 mezzo-brow1925 middlebrow1928 upper-middlebrow1956 1907 Duluth (Minnesota) News Tribune 27 June 6/3 It may be a low-brow idea of a good joke to throw glass on roads to be traversed by cyclist, automobiles and horses. 1909 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 4 Dec. 5/2 Some writers, of the low-brow style, break out in slangy phrases. 1923 Spectator 22 Sept. 391/2 Often the sole reason why he [sc. the man of genius] does not write ‘low-brow’ is because he cannot. 1927 Sunday Express 24 Apr. 2/2 He..picked up two newspapers, one of which is so highbrow that few people read it, and the other so lowbrow that I felt quite nervous. 1954 Life 19 Apr. 33/3 If you will pardon a very low-brow comment, I say ‘Phooey!’ 1985 H. Carpenter Secret Gardens Prol. 2 Chapbooks, which played much the same part in society as lowbrow television drama does now. 2010 N.Y. Mag. 5 Apr. 39/1 Shake Shack..proved that the epicurious would stand in line for an hour to devour a highbrow spin on a lowbrow favorite. Derivatives ˈlowbrowism n. the condition of being lowbrow; lack of interest in intellectual or cultural matters; a manifestation of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [noun] > low-browism lowbrowism1910 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] lewdness1362 inculture1653 uncultivatedness1764 incultivation1787 philistinism1793 uncultivation1796 unculture1812 muselessness1877 unliterariness1903 lowbrowism1910 1910 Green Bk. Album Jan. 77 If this be low-browism make the most of it! 1931 A. Huxley Music at Night 222 The snobbery of culture..has now to wrestle with an organized and active low-browism. 1971 Listener 2 Dec. 763/3 I am not at all arguing for a populist lowbrowism. 2001 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 Sept. a15 Judging by its test scores, lowbrowism still triumphs at that school. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.adv.1901
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