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name dropper collapse: someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends

vulgarian collapse: a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth)

upstart collapse: a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class; an arrogant or presumptuous person

neologism collapse: the act of inventing a word or phrase; a newly invented word or phrase

sprout collapse: a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed); any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud; put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; "the plant sprouted early this year"

modernist collapse: an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles

groundling collapse: in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section

modern collapse: a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes; a contemporary person; characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture; used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"; belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"

ribald collapse: a ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language

peasant collapse: a country person; a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement; one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

mushroom collapse: fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi; a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb); any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium; common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool); grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed"; pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall"

Philistine collapse: a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC; a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits; of or relating to ancient Philistia or the culture of the Philistines

bourgeois collapse: a member of the middle class; belonging to the middle class; conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"; (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

clown collapse: a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior; a rude or vulgar fool; act as or like a clown

fledgling collapse: young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying; young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer"

art collapse: the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"; the products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art"; a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art"

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