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What is a guttersnipe?

What is a guttersnipe? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (derogatory) A person who is from the lowest social or economic class.
  2. (derogatory) A street urchin.
  3. (dated, slang) A small poster, suitable for a kerbstone.
  4. (dated, slang, US) A kerbstone broker.
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Again, it is a vicious guttersnipe over there.
In one way or the other, the guttersnipe must have his proper prominence.
What would the guttersnipe have learnt as a graduate, except to embrace a Saxon because he was the other half of an Anglo-Saxon?
But I look forward to the time when the technology becomes cheap and common enough for a little guttersnipe like me to afford one.
I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.... Yes: In six months — in three if she has a good ear and a quick tongue — I'll take her anywhere and pass her off as anything.
This is a dexterous little cosmopolitan guttersnipe who can do scores of things, not only shoot, but draw and paint, and probably play the fiddle.

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