English
Etymology
A spin-off from the terms highbrow and lowbrow. The term first appeared in Punch (1925) and later was used by Virginia Wolf (1930's) in an unsent letter to the "New Statesman," published as a chapter in the book "The Death of a Moth and Other Essays" (1942).
Adjective
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- Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
Noun
en-noun
- A person or thing that is neither a highbrow or lowbrow, but in between.
References
ESC, 2003. Re:highbrow, middlebrow, lowbrow, The Phrase finder.
Robert Hendrickson, 1997. Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins (New York: Facts on File)
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