gutter dog

gutter dog noun: a person of low social rank.

Noun

gutter dog (plural gutter dogs)

(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 !"1900, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Joan of the Sword Hand, Dodd, page 202
- For that I weep not. But thou weepest for a stinking gutter dog. Curse on him that ever thinketh well of thee.1917, Michael West, Aucassin and Nicolette, Done from the Old French by Michael West ..., Harrap
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.1947, Narayan Sitaram Phadke, Leaves in the August wind: A Novel with the Indian Upheaval of August 1942 for Its Background, Hind Kitabs, page 50

Before, I was sort of a gutter dog— just do what you have to do.2007, A. B. Shani, Susan Albers Mohrman, William A. Pasmore, Bengt Stymne, Niclas Adler, Handbook of Collaborative Management Research...
She had given him the best years of her life and he was nothing but a rutting gutter dog.2012, Jackie Collins, Lucky, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 840:

What does gutter dog mean?: Gutter dog means a person of low social rank.
How do you use gutter dog in a sentence?: Before, I was sort of a gutter dog— just do what you have to do.
What part of speech is gutter dog?: Gutter dog is a noun.
What is the plural of gutter dog?: The plural of gutter dog is gutter dogs.

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