Is Pleb An Insult?

Is Pleb An Insult? However, in today’s language, the word “pleb” has taken on further connotations of coarse and vulgar. … It is rarely used as an insult in public life, although Gordon Ramsay once branded Sir Terence Conran a “pleb” adding he would “rather have food at my four-year-old daughter’s school” than his rival’s