gutter dog

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gutter dog

noun gutter dogs · gutter-dog · gutterdog

derogatory, slang A person of low social rank. 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 !"
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gutter, dog. 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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@misc{gutter_dog_2026,
  title = {gutter dog},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gutter%20dog},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}