Russian term
чернь
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Australia
Stand with Ukraine!
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unwashed masses
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Note added at 10 mins (2013-06-07 10:07:44 GMT)
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also "the great unwashed"
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The Misha
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Maria Mizguireva
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LilianNekipelov
: This might be too offensive in English.
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I don’t think it’s meant literally as in referring to poor hygiene. :)
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Nick Filatov (Mikalai Filatau) 
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yobbos
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The Misha
: Not unless you are Australian or something. There's definitely less regional ways to say this.
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Jim Tucker (X)
: w/ Mish. Most EN speakers would not understand this.
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Thank you. This definition has been taken from an English book. I may find the author it if you want me to)
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attentive to detail and fast
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hoi polloi
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The Misha
: This doesn't have the negative connotation of the original term, not as a general case anyway. Think the difference between common man and trash.
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hoi polloi is most always used with a deragatory connotation, just like the source too. Try "plebs" or "the herd"
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Tevah_Trans
: With The Misha. Actually "herd" would probably work.
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What IS the context here? I think, all of these words are negative...in a sense. And чернь isn't really so bad. It's a very old, in fact quite neutral, word in Russian
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plebs
Medical. Very medical.
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villain/s
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the masses
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rabble
An interesting question, though. What has to be eliminated from the translation is any possible shade of "delinquency" (thus, no "mob", "villains" etc.).
Besides not being necessarily delinquent, rabble are not just a crowd (that is, another reading of "mob", "masses", etc.): they are a social sub-class, so "rabble" would be the specific pegorative for them.
"Plebs" seems to be ok, but not all plebs are rabble. Plebs is an entire subaltern class while rabble – a sub-class thereof.
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Oleksiy Markunin
: Maybe, "the rabble" then?
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натюрлихь! Спасибо.
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Andrew Vdovin
: "Tell the rabble to be quiet, we anticipate a riot..." :)
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thanks.
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