| Definitions | | lowbrow |
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noun
- Someone or something of low education or culture.
adjective
- unsophisticated, Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.
- The Three Stooges are known for their slapstick humor consisting of foolish action for the masses.
Etymology: From low and brow, Americanism, circa 1902. Referring to the (by that time discredited) science of phrenology, which suggested that a person of low intelligence and sophistication would posses a lower brow-line than someone of greater intelligence and sophistication.
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