groundling

noun11

1. •
   An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).

   • when your Groundling, and gallery-Commoner buyes his sport by the penny, and, like a Hagler, is glad to utter it againe by retailing. — 1609
2. •
   A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.

   • This is what the magnanimous National Liberal Federation have said in effect to the House of Lords, and what, it should seem, they innocently regard as likely to impress the Gladstonian groundling. — 1893
3. •
   One who is confined to the ground.
4. •
   A member of a race that lives primarily underground, such as a dwarf.

   • Simon noticed a groundling look intently at Walsingham's purse and nudge his mate. — 2008
5. •
   (slang) A soldier who fights on the ground or serves as ground crew, as opposed to a seaman, pilot, etc.

   • He then enlisted in the air force and served as a groundling in North Africa, Sicily, and England. — 2010
6. •
   Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder.

   • In the pond behind the garden there were plenty of carp and groundlings. — 1922
7. •
   The spined loach (Cobitis taenia), weather loach (Misgurnus fossilis), or other member of the loaches.

   • The BEARDED-LOACH or GROUNDLING. Gobites Barbatula. It is a small fish about five inches long, bearded with six small Threads, three on each side — 1681
8. •
   The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.
9. •
   A dragonfly of the genus Brachythemis.
10. •
    A moth of the genus Condica
11. •
    Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).

    • It is not good for the groundling to be alone I will make for it a help as its counterpart (2.18). — 1993