underfellow

From under- +‎ fellow.

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underfellow (plural underfellows)

1. (archaic) An underling; a subordinate.
2. (archaic) A mean, low man.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

     the carried him some miles thence, to a house of a principal officer of that country; who, with no more civility, though with much more business, than those under-fellows had showed

• “underfellow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.