guttersnipe

guttersnipe
Synonyms and related words:
Arab, Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, boor, bounder, bourgeois, brat, bum, bummer, cad, churl, clown, dogie, epicier, gamin, gamine, groundling, hobo, homeless waif, hooligan, idler, ill-bred fellow, landloper, lazzarone, loafer, looby, losel, lout, low fellow, mucker, mudlark, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, piker, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ribald, rogue, rough, roughneck, rounder, rowdy, ruffian, ski bum, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, turnpiker, upstart, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vulgarian, vulgarist, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, yokel

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  • Guttersnipe — Gut ter*snipe , n. (Slang) 1. (a) A small poster, suitable for a curbstone. (b) A curbstone broker. [U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. same as {street Arab}. [PJC] 3. a person of low moral character. [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • guttersnipe — also gutter snipe, 1857, from GUTTER (Cf. gutter) (n.) + SNIPE (Cf. snipe) (n.); originally Wall Street slang for streetcorner broker, attested later (1869) as street urchin, also one who gathers rags and paper from gutters. As a name for the… …   Etymology dictionary

  • guttersnipe — ► NOUN ▪ a street urchin …   English terms dictionary

  • guttersnipe — [gut′ərsnīp΄] n. [orig. (Brit dial.), the common snipe, which picks food out of gutters] a child of the slums who spends most of his or her time in the streets: contemptuous term applied to anyone regarded as having the manners, morals, etc. of… …   English World dictionary

  • guttersnipe — noun Date: circa 1869 1. a homeless vagabond and especially an outcast boy or girl in the streets of a city 2. a person of the lowest moral or economic station • guttersnipish adjective …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • guttersnipe — guttersnipish, adj. /gut euhr snuyp /, n. 1. a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city. 2. a street urchin. [1855 60; GUTTER + SNIPE] * * * …   Universalium

  • guttersnipe — noun a) A person who is from the lowest social or economic class. b) A street urchin …   Wiktionary

  • guttersnipe — gut|ter|snipe [ˈgʌtəsnaıp US ər ] n old fashioned [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: GUTTER1 + SNIPE2] a dirty untidy badly behaved child from a poor home …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • guttersnipe — n. street kid; urchin …   English contemporary dictionary

  • guttersnipe — noun a street urchin …   English new terms dictionary

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