cog commonality commonalty creature demos flunky follower ignobile vulgus inferior junior lightweight lower class lower orders many-headed multitude masses mobile vulgus pawn second fiddle secondary subaltern subordinate the citizenry the common herd the crowd the general public the great unnumbered the great unwashed the herd the hoi polloi the horde the majority the many the masses the mob the multitude the people the populace the population the public third stringer underling understrapper yes-man