Meaning of gutter dog | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person of low social rank.
   derogatory, slang
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gutter, dog.

Examples

“So the starving folk dreamed and dreamed and woke, and cried out curses on them that had waked them, saying, "Plague take the hands that pulled me back to this gutter dog's life !"”

“For that I weep not. But thou weepest for a stinking gutter dog. Curse on him that ever thinketh well of thee.”

“Before, I was sort of a gutter dog— just do what you have to do.”

“Lying, cheating, whore-mongering Casanova basta! How dare he. HOW DARE HE! Father of her children, faithful husband – or so he had always sworn. She had given him the best years of her life and he was nothing but a rutting gutter dog.”

“Clogged steps struck the cobbles as the little boy made his escape up Great Ancoats Street; swearing under his breath, the man threw Pip a furious look. 'You interfering gutter-dog. I'll snuff you out this time, you see if I don't! It's not as though anyone shall miss or mourn a parasite such as you, is it?'”

“Her mother tried to persuade her not to keep the dirty gutter dog. 'If you do want a dog, we can have a nice terrier pup specially brought from the city,' she said.”

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