middlebrow
A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in betweenA person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.
» Calling this, or really any, TV show middlebrow is judgmental in nature.
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1 sensesA person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.
Durchschnittsmensch
someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow
Examples
1 sentencesCalling this, or really any, TV show middlebrow is judgmental in nature.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From middle + brow, by analogy with highbrow and lowbrow. The term first appeared in PunchFrom middle + brow, by analogy with highbrow and lowbrow. The term first appeared in Punch (1925) and was later used by Virginia Woolf (1930s) in an unsent letter to the New Statesman, published as a chapter in the book The Death of a Moth and Other Essays (1942).
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