- guttersnipe gutter·snipe n
- ['ɡʌtəˌsnaɪp]
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guttersnipe gutter·snipe n
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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 — /ˈgʌtəsnaɪp/ (say gutuhsnuyp) noun 1. a street urchin; gamin. 2. someone held in poor esteem as having the morals and behaviour of a street urchin. {gutter + snipe in the sense of a bird frequenting the gutter} …
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 — [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
