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guttersnipe

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guttersnipe rate
(Adult / Slang)
Obsolete 19 th century term for a vulgar, street person; a wretch.

Quote: Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) speaking of Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) in Pygmalion (1938): ' She's so deliciously low, so horribly dirty (...) I shall make a duchess of this draggle-tailed guttersnipe.'


guttersnipe rate
(Noun) pennyless and skinny street girl
Usage: Feed the guttersnipe 'fore she faints and blows away.


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