3 October 2016

guttersnipe

[guht-er-snahyp]

noun

1. a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
2. a street urchin.

Origin of guttersnipe

1855-1860; gutter + snipe

Related forms

guttersnipish, adjective

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Examples from the Web for guttersnipe

Historical Examples

What would the guttersnipe have learnt as a graduate, except to embrace a Saxon because he was the other half of an Anglo-Saxon?
A Short History of England
G. K. Chesterton

In one way or the other, the guttersnipe must have his proper prominence.
Atlantic Classics
Various

But—who in all his life ever before saw a guttersnipe with eyes so lacking in cunning and roguery?
The Rich Little Poor Boy
Eleanor Gates

Anagram

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Today’s quote

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

– Irene Peter

On this day

3 October 1226 – death of St Francis of Assisi, Italian friar and founder of the men’s Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St Clare and the Third Order of St Francis. Although these are all Catholic Orders, he was never ordained as a Catholic priest. Born 26 September 1181.

3 October 1925 – birth of Gore Vidal, American author, playwright, essayist and political activist. Died 31 July 2012.

3 October 1942 – Nazi Germany becomes the first nation to reach space with the launch of the V2 rocket fuelled by alcohol and liquid oxygen, which travelled 190 kilometres, taking it into the Earth’s thermosphere. The V2 was the world’s first long-range ballistic missile which Hitler’s forces used to great effect against the Allied armies. The V2 was developed by Werner von Braun (the Father of Rocket Science), who later worked on the American rocket and space program. Following the war, the Soviet Union and the USA raced to develop rocket technology so head-hunted former Nazi rocket scientists and acquired samples of the V2.