Guttersnipe
[guht-er-snahyp] /ˈgʌt ərˌsnaɪp/
noun
1.
a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
2.
a street urchin.
/ˈɡʌtəˌsnaɪp/
noun
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
n.
also gutter-snipe, 1857, from gutter (n.) + 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 common snipe, it dates from 1874 but is perhaps earlier.
noun
A vulgar person; a vile wretch
[1869+; in the sense ”a curbside stock broker” found by 1856]
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