Meaning

noun a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

noun one of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries

originFrom gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture, from Late Latin gothicus (“Gothic, barbaric”), from Ancient Greek Γοτθικός (Gotthikós), from…

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