vulgarian
noun
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Pronunciation: /vʌlˈɡɛəɹi.ən/
adj
Etymology: From vulgar + -ian. Compare Late Latin vulgārius, Latin vulgāris.
- Having the characteristics of a vulgarian, vulgar.
“Your vulgarian friend is downstairs, denting innocent people's fenders.”
noun
Etymology: From vulgar + -ian. Compare Late Latin vulgārius, Latin vulgāris.
- A vulgar individual, especially one who emphasizes or is oblivious to his or her vulgar qualities.
“He was by this time on the deck, but he had the art to be quite unapproachable; the friendliest vulgarian, three parts drunk, would have known better than take liberties...”
“But to have spent one's youth at college, in contact with the choice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know it only when ticketed and labeled and forced on us by others, this indeed should be accounted the very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.”