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Hoi polloi   /hɔɪ pˌɑlˈɔɪ/   Listen
Hoi polloi

noun
1.
The common people generally.  Synonyms: mass, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed.  "Power to the people"






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"Hoi polloi" Quotes from Famous Books



... a prime pair of mincepies, no kid. And her take me to rests and her anker of rum. Must be seen to be believed. Your starving eyes and allbeplastered neck you stole my heart, O gluepot. Sir? Spud again the rheumatiz? All poppycock, you'll scuse me saying. For the hoi polloi. I vear thee beest a gert vool. Well, doc? Back fro Lapland? Your corporosity sagaciating O K? How's the squaws and papooses? Womanbody after going on the straw? Stand and deliver. Password. There's hair. Ours the white death and the ruddy birth. Hi! Spit in your own eye, boss! Mummer's ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce



Words linked to "Hoi polloi" :   followers, group, mass, the great unwashed, laity, grouping, temporalty, following, audience



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