/pɹəʊl/, /pɹoʊl/
OriginFrom proletariat (“working class”) by shortening.
- informalA member of the proletariat; a proletarian.
- informalA pleb (ordinary person).
- intransitive, obsoleteTo prowl; to proll.
“[…] for he ordained, […] and that boyes and children ſhould have ſo little allowed them to eat, that they ſhould be forced to prole, and ſteal for their better proviſion, to make them thereby the more”
“But I will not ſuch Journies take, / To dig and prole in vain: / For was I to dig twenty Weeks, / Without might come again.”
“[…] and Joseph went proling about after dark with his gun—and took and shot him!”
Formsproles(plural) · proles(present, singular, third-person) · proling(participle, present) · proled(participle, past) · proled(past)