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Guttersnipe   Listen
noun
Guttersnipe  n.  (Slang)
1.
(a)
A small poster, suitable for a curbstone.
(b)
A curbstone broker. (U. S.)
2.
Same as street Arab.
3.
A person of low moral character.





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"Guttersnipe" Quotes from Famous Books



... his age. It is not the gentle, amiable, well-mannered boy who is so enthusiastic for adventure that he will leave his home and endure the hardships of a soldier's life for the sake of seeing fighting. These boys were for the most part young scamps, and some of them had all the qualities of the guttersnipe, but they had the makings of men ...
— A Padre in France • George A. Birmingham
... Man is the same in every station of life; if that be so, those ranks to which most men belong deserve most honour. All distinctions of rank fade away before the eyes of a thoughtful person; he sees the same passions, the same feelings in the noble and the guttersnipe; there is merely a slight difference in speech, and more or less artificiality of tone; and if there is indeed any essential difference between them, the disadvantage is all on the side of those who are more sophisticated. The people show themselves as they are, and they ...
— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
... should be independent, untrammelled alike by parental restrictions and education, and except on the very frequent occasions when this particular theory collided with his comfort and his conviction that his son was being disgracefully neglected, Robert lived the life of a lonely and illiterate guttersnipe. He did not know he was lonely. He did not want to play with the other children in the Terrace. But he did know that for some mysterious reason or other they did not want to play with him. The trim nursemaids drew their starched and shining darlings to one side when ...
— The Dark House • I. A. R. Wylie


Words linked to "Guttersnipe" :   gamin, gamine, street arab, urchin


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