MIDDLEBROW

PRONUNCIATION: (MID-uhl-brou)

MEANING: adjective: 1. (describing a person) Having tastes and interests that lie somewhere between sophisticated and vulgar.
2. (describing a work of art) Neither sophisticated nor vulgar.
noun: A person who has conventional tastes and interests.

ETYMOLOGY: Formed on the pattern of highbrow and lowbrow. From middle, from Old English middel (middle) + bru (brow). Earliest documented use: 1912.
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MUDDLEBROW - an eyebrow raised only part way because you're only slightly puzzled

MIDDLEBREW - beer that has been decanted halfway through the fermentation process

MIDDLE-FROW - second German wife out of three