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guttersnipe

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gut·ter·snipe  (gtr-snp)
n.
1. A street urchin.
2. A person of the lowest class.

guttersnipe [ˈgʌtəˌsnaɪp]
n
1. a child who spends most of his time in the streets, esp in a slum area
2. a person regarded as having the behaviour, morals, etc., of one brought up in squalor
[originally a name applied to the common snipe (the bird), then to a person who gathered refuse from gutters in city streets]
guttersnipish  adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.guttersnipe - a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas
gamine - a homeless girl who roams the streets
gamin, street arab, throwaway - (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
urchin - poor and often mischievous city child

guttersnipe
noun street urchin, waif, ragamuffin, mudlark (slang), gamin, street Arab (offensive) An elocution expert plucks a guttersnipe from Covent Garden market and teaches her to talk like a lady.
Translations
guttersnipe [ˈgʌtəsnaɪp] Ngolfillo m
guttersnipe [ˈgʌtəˌsnaɪp] nscugnizzo
guttersnipe [ˈgʌtəˌsnaɪp] nscugnizzo


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--the one an inky, rusty old canoe with a sable hearse-body clapped on to the middle of it, and the other a mangy, barefooted guttersnipe with a portion of his raiment on exhibition which should have been sacred from public scrutiny.
Pearce; and damn the coffee; and damn you; and damn my own folly in having lavished MY hard-earned knowledge and the treasure of my regard and intimacy on a heartless guttersnipe.
So that thousands of poor English people trembled before a mysterious chieftain with an ancient destiny and a diadem of evil stars--when they are really trembling before a guttersnipe who was a pettifogger and a pawnbroker not twelve years ago.
 
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