Found 2 items, similar to groundling.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: groundling groundling n : in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section
English → English (gcide) Definition: Groundling Groundling \Ground"ling\, n. [Ground + -ling.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach. [1913 Webster] 2. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. [1913 Webster] No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]