middlebrow
Meanings
Plural: middlebrows
Noun
- someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow
- A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.
Adj
- Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
Origin / Etymology
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).
Scrabble Score: 19
middlebrow is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordmiddlebrow is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
middlebrow is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 22
middlebrow is a valid Words With Friends word