'Guttersnipe' definitions:
Definition of 'guttersnipe'
(from WordNet)
noun
A child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas [syn: street urchin, guttersnipe]
Definition of 'Guttersnipe'
From: GCIDE
- Guttersnipe \Gut"ter*snipe"\, n. (Slang) 1. (a) A small poster, suitable for a curbstone. (b) A curbstone broker. [U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. same as street Arab. [PJC]
- 3. a person of low moral character. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'guttersnipe'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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