netherman

Noun

netherman (plural nethermen)

1. An inhabitant of a lowland region; lowlander.
   • […] and it is as difficult to persuade such persons that there is dawning on us a better system, as it is to convince an ancient highlander that there is a garment for the netherman which possesses advantages over the national kilt.1866, George Hamilton, An appeal for the horse
2. An inferior man or inferior status of mankind, as opposed to superman.
   • Perhaps the Socialism Nietzsche had in mind would have degraded the race, as surely as Christianity was already threatening to change man into Netherman.1915, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New age: a weekly review of politics, literature and art
   • Too much the redest bloody Cadillacs caught cryptic on the air, luring another netherman with California Rugelo and too much the rigid enterprising caterwauling!1986, Ray Bremser, Poems of madness
3. An underling; subordinate.
   • […] while customary rents of tenants called 'nethermen' and 'overmen' were worth respectively […]1975, Ralph Bernard Pugh, Elizabeth Crittall, D. A. Crowley, A History of Wiltshire