GROUNDLING

groundling

(noun) in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

groundling (plural groundlings)

Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially

The spined loach (Cobitis taenia), weather loach ( Misgurnus fossilis), or other member of the loaches.

The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.

An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).

(by extension) A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.

One who is confined to the ground, especially

(military, slang) A soldier who fights on the ground or serves as ground crew, as opposed to a seaman, pilot, etc.

(fantasy) A member of a race that lives primarily underground, such as a dwarf.

(Abrahamic religions) Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).

Source: Wiktionary

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Ground"ling, n. Etym: [Ground + -ling.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.

2. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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