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adj
Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, not-comparable
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noun
A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
History
From 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).
Across languages
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