What is Bottom-dweller?
1.
An insult which indicates that the recipient is a member of society's lowest levels. This may have stemmed from Elizabethean times, when the poorer viewers at a theatre had to watch from the ground (hence their nickname, 'Groundlings'), which had no seats. The wealthier atendees, however, had nice chairs and overhangs, preventing them from getting wet.
Stop stealing from my mailbox, you bottom-dweller!
2.
1. A fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water; a scavenger that feeds low on the food chain; a bottom-feeder such as carp and catfish.
2. A person of low character, having no scruples; a selfish, conniving and amoral person; a scumbag.
Karl Rove -- political strategist, dirty trickster and all-around bottom-dweller -- is known to some as "Bush's brain."
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