Meaning of GUTTERSNIPE
| Pronunciation: | | 'gutur`snIp
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| | Definition: | | [n] a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas |
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| | Synonyms: | | street urchin |
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| | See Also: | | gamin, street arab, throwaway, urchin | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Gut"ter*snipe"\, n. (Slang)
(a) A small poster, suitable for a curbstone.
(b) A curbstone broker. [U. S.]
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| | Related Terms: | | Arab, arriviste, Babbitt, 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, Philistine, 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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