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gutter dogs

gutter dogs is the plural of gutter dog.

Meaning of gutter dog

Noun

gutter dog (plural gutter dogs)

  1. (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
  2. 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

Questions about gutter dogs

What is gutter dogs the plural of?
Gutter dogs is the plural of gutter dog.

Words near gutter dogs in the dictionary

  1. gutter ape
  2. gutter apes
  3. gutter ball
  4. gutter balls
  5. gutter dog
  6. gutter dogs
  7. gutter game
  8. gutter guard
  9. gutter guards
  10. gutter member
  11. gutter members

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