MIDDLE-CLASS
ADJECTIVES
► BURBED OUT looking very middle-class and suburban; decked out like a suburban citizen → 1990 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BUZHIE middle-class → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► MIDDLE BROW middle-class; average or mediocre → 1990 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► MENALTY the middle class of society → 1548
NOUNS – PERSON
► BABBITT a self-opinionated, self-satisfied small-town bourgeois, with all the prejudices of such a figure; a narrow-minded, middle-class materialist → 1959
► BUZHIE a middle-class person → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► EXCUSE-ME a member of the educated middle class → 1960s S. Afr. sl.
► GEORGE the typical middle-class householder, esp. if married, steady, and respectable → 1935 colloq.
► GIGMAN a narrow-minded, conventional member of the middle class, who views ‘respectability’ as the chief concern of life → 1830
► GIGMANESS a narrow-minded, conventional female member of the middle class, who views ‘respectability’ as the chief concern of life → 1831
► OK YARDIE a stereotypical Briton of the upper-class or middle-class who lives in west London’s gangland → 1998 UK sl.
► SLOANE ► SLOANE RANGER a fashionable and conventional upper-middle-class young person (usually female), esp. living in London → 1975 Brit. sl.
► SLOANIE a ‘Sloane Ranger’ → 1982 Brit. sl.
► WHIPPY HIPPY a middle-class adult who tries to join the younger generation on weekends → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
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