A fork of Rural Dictionary
Somebody who can't fly. Not really a derogatory term, but discriptive. Similar to groundhog.
Don't take your cessna below a thousand feet over a city, you don't want to bother the groundlings.
People who are stuck on the ground all the time. A non-pilot. Someone who can't fly. Also, Groundhog.
"Wow, look at all those groundlings! It's too nice a day to be stuck down there!"
a living being that cannot fly and hence that is confined to the ground. Also called landling.
Human beings are groundlings.