LUMPEN

I. adjective Etymology: German Lumpenproletariat degraded section of the proletariat, from Lump contemptible person (from Lumpen rags) + Proletariat Date: 1936 of or relating to dispossessed and uprooted individuals cut off from the economic and social class with which they might normally be identified , plebeian 2, II. noun (plural ~; also ~s) Date: 1941 a member of the crude and uneducated lowest class of society