Mudsill

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·noun Fig.: A person of the lowest stratum of society;

— a term of opprobrium or contempt.

II. Mudsill ·noun The lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. ·see Sill.