middlebrow

Etymology
, by analogy with and. The term first appeared in Punch (1925) and was later used by (1930s) in an unsent letter to the , published as a chapter in the book The Death of a Moth and Other Essays (1942).

Adjective

 * 1)  Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.

Usage notes
Generally pejorative, implying pretension and vulgarity – aspiring and appropriating high culture, but not appreciating it. On occasion instead used positively.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 中庸之辈
 * German: ,

Noun

 * 1) A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.

Translations

 * German: