guttern.¹

Brit.

/ˈɡʌtə/, U.S.

/ˈɡədər/

Forms: Middle English goter, Middle English godere (1500s godard), gooter, gotur, guter, Middle English gotere, Middle English gotyr, guttyr, gutur, Middle English–1500s guttur, Middle English–1600s guttar, gutture, 1500s gotter, gutt(e)re, Scottish gutar, guttour, Middle English– gutter.

Etymology: < Old French gutiere (12th cent. in Littré), goutiere (13th cent.), modern French gouttière (feminine) (= Provençal, Spanish gotera , Portuguese goteira ), also Old French gou(t)tier (masculine) (1325 in Godefroy), < goutte drop (see gout n.¹).

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a. A watercourse, natural or artificial; in later use, a small brook or channel. In 14–15th centuries often used to render Latin stillicidium (shower), catarractes (cataract, deluge), etc. Obsolete.

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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > watercourse or channel

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a1300 E.E. Psalter lxxi[i]. 6 He sat douncome..Als goters droppand þe erthe ogaine.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. viii. 2 The wellys of the see and the goterys of heuene ben closid.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 181 Þe ryuer Danubius..is..i-ladde in to dyuerse places of þe cite by goteres [L. canalibus] vnder erþe.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) xiii. xvi To renewe and refresche pondes fresche water is lad and brouȝte by goderes [1495 gutters] condites and pipes.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 206/1 Gotere vndyr þe grownde, cataduppa, cataracta.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 799/44 Hic gurges, a gotyr.

1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. B vij^v Henbayne..groweth..about guttures and ditches.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 137 He [Tigris] takes his way vnder the earth through certain blinde gutters.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 50 Some standing Lake Which neighbour Mountains with their gutters make.

1675 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1893) IV. 39 On ye East sid of a little gutter on ye south side of a swompe.

1786 R. Burns Holy Fair vii, in Poems 43 Swankies young, in braw braid-claith, Are springan owre the gutters.

1797 B. Trumbull Compl. Hist. Connecticut 24 In the low lands, on the banks of the rivers, by the brooks and gutters, there was a variety and plenty of grapes.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) iii. 32 We crossed a brook..called Jeremiah's Gutter.

b. A furrow or track made by running water.

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1586 D. Rowland tr. H. de Mendoza Pleasant Hist. Lazarillo (1677) D 2 a A great wide Gutter which the raine had made.

1637 S. Rutherford Let. 13 Mar. (1848) cxxxviii. 258 Prisoners of hope must run to Christ, with the gutters that tears have made on their cheeks.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 164 The rude Prospects of many Rocks rising one above another, of the deep Gutters worn in the Sides of 'em by the Torrents of Rain.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 94 There had been some heavy storms of rain, and the water lay in deep gutters on the sides of the gravel-walks.

c. Australian. Gold-mining. The lower part of the channel of an old river of the Tertiary period containing auriferous deposits.

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1856 S. Davison Let. 13 Aug. in W. B. Clarke Res. S. Gold Fields New S. Wales (1860) iv. 50 Pebble-covered local gold in evenly-spread beds or linear troughs of leads or gutters.

1864 J. Rogers New Rush 55 Duffers are so common And golden gutters rare.

1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. i. 20 The gutter..proved remunerative enough to keep the mine going, and pay all the men.

2. A shallow trough fixed under the eaves of a roof, or a channel running between two sloping roofs, to carry off the rainwater.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gutter

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1355 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 92 In mercede j hominis mundantis guteres circa ecclesiam pro ij vicibus 6d.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Sam. v. 8 The goters of the hows eues.

1472 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 246 12d. solut. pro reparacione unius guttur plumb. cameræ.

1522 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 16 Paid to the plumer for metal to Sowder the gutters iij^s iiij^d.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 29 Water they save likewise from their houses, by gutters at the eves, which carrie it down to cisterns.

1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Archit. (1818) 85 Experience has taught men to carry off the droppings from their shelving roofs by placing gutters in them.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 220 Bridged Gutters—Gutters made with boards, supported below with bearers, and covered over with lead.

1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter iii Dax's window opened on to a gutter.

a. A hollowed channel running at the side or (less commonly) along the middle of a street, to carry away the surface water.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > gutter in a street

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channelling1834

1408 Durham Acc. Roll in Eng. Hist. Rev. XIV. 517 Soluta..laborariis..facientibus unam gutteram lapideam et illam in dicto Watergate ponentibus.

1449–50 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 276 Pro emendacione et le pavyng 1 gutter juxta capellam, 3s. 4d.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1607 The water..Gosshet through Godardys & other grete vautes.

1553 in Halliwell Shaks. (1887) II. 141 That every tenaunt do scour and kep cleane ther gutteres or dyches in the same lane.

1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 165 Hee cannot doe so much good as a Fellow that sweepes gutters.

a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) ii. 58 A Gutter is of a less size, and of a narrower passage and current then a Sewer is; and as I take it, a Gutter is the diminutive of a Sewer.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 317. ¶9 Went to the Club. Like to have faln into a Gutter.

1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. II. 2 Flagstones which slope from the houses towards the middle of the streets to form a gutter.

1840 R. H. Barham Cynotaph in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 112 (note) All bare and exposed to the midnight dews, Reclined in a gutter we found him.

1898 I. Zangwill Dreamers of Ghetto iv. 128 The gutters run blood.

b. figurative. Taken as the typical haunt of persons, esp. children, of low birth or breeding.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun] > of low classes or criminals

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c1846 W. E. Forster in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) I. vi. 169 I would strive..to get the children of the working classes out of the gutter, by educating them.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. iii. 95 The women I have cared for in days gone by have hardly got over their early affinity with the gutter.

1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon I. i. i. 46 To take a girl out of the gutter and pretend that she is a lady.

1890 H. Caine Bondman ii. i If he came to die in the gutter, who should say that it had not served him right?

1896 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 62 234/2 Slang of the slums and the gutter.

c. A channel forming a receptacle for dirt or filth; a sink. literal and figurative. Now dialect.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer

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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 206/2 Gotere, ad purgandum feces coquine.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) Let. ii. f. 102 Thou Rome shalte be the syncke and gutter of the fylthynes of Asye.

1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxix. sig. Q6 A true thing out of the gutter of a false throate can hardly escape corrupting.

1718 T. Gordon in Cordial Low-spirits (1750) 30 Girding it 'till you have quite stopped up the Gutter through which the aforesaid excrements issue.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gutter, Gutter-hole, a sink or kennel. The general sense of gutter is a passage for water particularly, but not exclusively, from the roofs of houses. But with us the idea of filth is inseparable from it.

d. Mud, filth. Chiefly Scottish (only plural).

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > mud

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1785 Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. 28 Sae smear'd wi' gutters was his buik, He stinket in his hide.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gutter-slush, gutter, kennel dirt. ‘She fell down in the street, and her clothes were all over nothing but gutter.’

1866 D. Mitchell Hist. Montrose xxii. 162 She quenched his oratory with a mouthful of gutters.

4. A shallow trough or open conduit or pipe for the outflow of fluid.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > open for outflow of liquid

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1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 90 Under the rollers, there is a receiver..into which the liquor falls, and..runs under ground in a pipe or gutter of lead.

1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller i. xvi. 74 By placing in the middle of the Tub a wooden Pipe or Gutter.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 417 Sometimes the trunk of a fir-tree, hollowed out, so as to form a kind of gutter, is placed in an inclined position.

1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church in Church Bells Devon i. 204 The fused metal is carried at once from the furnace to the pit by means of a series of gutters.

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a. A groove or elongated hollow in an animal or vegetable body. Obsolete in general sense.

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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > groove or furrow

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1553 N. Udall tr. T. Gemini Compend. Anat. B iij b/2 Thys concauite or dyche or gutter [of the Nose].

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xl. 709 A rough harde stone, full of creastes and gutters, within whiche is a kernell lyke an Almonde.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 425 All which veines are easie inough to know, because that euery one lyeth in a little gutter.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 9 His buttocke round, plumpe, and full, without eyther gutter or deuision of ioynts.

1616 A. Read Εωματογραϕία Ανθρωπίη 20 The sinus of the gutture of the arme receiuing the cubit.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 42 These Seeds are separated from one another by Leaves folded into a Gutter.

†b. spec. Hunting. One of the grooves in the ‘beam’ of a hart's ‘head’. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > main stem of > groove in

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1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxi. 53 The thing that beareth the Antliers, Royals, and toppes, ought to be called the beame, and the little clyffes or streakes therein are called gutters.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gutters, the little Streak in a Deer's Beam.

c. Entomology. Applied to certain folds on the hinder wings of lepidoptera.

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1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 360 Internal margin of the lower wings arched and projecting over the abdomen to form a gutter.

6. A groove or channel of artificial formation. Now only technical.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves > a groove, channel, or furrow

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > crossbow > part where bolt positioned

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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 159^v They are curiously buylded with many pleasaunt diuises, as..turrettes, portals, gutters.

1594 H. Plat Jewell House 23 A pistoll..hauing eight gutters somewhat deepe in the inside of the barrell.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Coulisse d'un arbaleste, the hollow furrow wherein the arrow lyes; we call it, the gutter, or chace.

1659 T. Willsford Architectonice 31 The Dorick order,..this Column..more adorned then the last, to which some adde Flutings, or gutters.

1682 London Gaz. No. 1684/4 A black brown Gelding..three Gutters cut in his Hoof.

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 106 The workman..ploughs out the gutter for the lodgment of the barrel [of a gun].

1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 187 The stamping shop, where girls, with inconceivable rapidity, place each wire beneath a die, and stamp exactly in the middle thereof two eyes, and two channels, or gutters as they are termed.

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Gutter, a hollow or groove running down the centre of a knife spring.

7. In Printing = gutter-stick n. at Compounds 2. Also in Bookbinding, ‘the white space between the pages of a book’ (Barrère and Leland Slang, 1889).

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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > spacing material > that separates pages

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1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing (at cited word) We now mean by the term Gutter, the piece of furniture that separates two adjoining pages in a chase, as in an octavo that between pages 1 and 16, in a duodecimo that between pages 1 and 24 and so on.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 55 Gutter, the ‘back’ margin or furniture of a sheet. This is the part of a sheet which when folded falls in the back of the book.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations. Also gutter-blood n., guttersnipe n., gutter-tile n., etc.

gutter-boy n.

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1901 G. K. Chesterton Defendant 15 We rate the gutter-boys for their immorality.

gutter-brat n.

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1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xii. 80 He was a gutter-brat.

gutter-canal n.

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1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night i. iii. 23 The gutter-canal that ran along the middle of the street as the serpent's inverted spine.

gutter channel n.

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1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 32^v Gutter, chanilles, uncleane kept.

gutter-girl n.

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1909 Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 3/1 A devoted priest, a noble gutter-girl,..—these are Mrs. Baillie Saunders's stock-in-trade.

gutter-hole n.

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1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 636 Who having dined abroad, returning late, Besplash your stockings in the gutter-hole.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gutter, Gutter-hole, a sink or kennel.

gutter-level n.

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1880 Victorian Rev. (Melbourne) Feb. 656 The gutters had virtually sucked them dry, and had left no gold worth having above the gutter-level.

gutter-lout n.

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1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent i. 8 A real gutter-lout came to look at their counterslips.

gutter-mongrel n.

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a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 21 Not fit to be trusted with any dog but a gutter-mongrel.

gutter-snippet n.

gutter spout n.

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1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 279 Would any wise man..trust to a gutter-spout to quench his thirst, when he might goe to a spring?

1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iv. iii Then the whole scene changed, and he thought himself a monk's-head on a gutter-spout.

gutter stone n.

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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/1 Guttar stone.

gutter-sweeping n.

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1954 W. Faulkner Fable (1955) 26 The African regiment recruited from the prison- and gutter-sweepings of Europe.

gutter water n.

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1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 361 A lesser Conduit..carried the Gutter-Water of several Streets.

gutter waterway n.

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1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 123 In some cases, a gutter waterway is fitted on the inside of the stanchions, the wood waterway being between the side plating and gutter waterway.

gutter work n.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Caneleure,..gutter-worke (in stone, or timber).

gutter-bred adj.

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1877 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VII. lxxvi. 108 Any young gutter-bred black~guard.

gutter-draggled adj.

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1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby I. 95 Her sordid, mercenary, little gutter-draggled soul.

gutter-gorging adj.

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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 275 Guttur gorging durty muds.

gutter-grubbing adj.

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1795 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 148 O God! that such a mind should fall in love with that low, dirty, gutter-grubbing trull, Worldly Prudence!

gutter-like adj.

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1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. v. 117 The scoop (sinus) is the hollowed, or gutter-like process placed side-ways of the beak, and lower down on the very lip.

gutter-wise adv.

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1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden xvii. 35 A..peece of soft wax, made a little hollow, gutter~wise.

C2.

gutter-bearer n. ‘the sort of joist upon which the boarding for a gutter is laid’ ( Dict. Archit. 1852).

gutter-bird n. the sparrow, hence figurative, a disreputable person.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person

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fuckhead?1945

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > person of the lowest class

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coolie1803

gutterling1846

mudsill1858

prole1887

gutter-sparrow1890

gutter-bird1896

underworldling1928

delta1932

lumpenproletarian1936

proly1959

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > genus Passer > passer domesticus (sparrow)

sparrowc725

phipc1400

Philipa1500

house sparrow1653

spug1808

sprug1815

spruggie1845

spurgie1849

spadger1862

spur1866

spuggy1874

spurg1882

gutter-bird1896

sparrer1935

1896 Westm. Gaz. 18 Feb. 5/2 They seem to bear the same relation to ordinary dogs as the lowest gutter-bird does to a respectable man.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 2/3 The sparrow has a strong idea in his impudent little head that everything belongs to him... This..will not do for such a refined city as Boston, and so the fiat has gone forth against the little gutter bird.

gutter-board n. a board forming the foundation on which is laid the lining-material forming the gutter itself.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gutter > part of

gutter-board1703

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 162 In these Plain-tile-gutters, there is a Gutter-board laid which raises them.

1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Gutter-board.

gutter-child n. a child such as haunts the street gutters, one of low birth or breeding.

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child

blackguard1699

street girl1764

street boy1796

mudlark1814

street urchin1827

gamin1832

street child1839

Arab1847

street Arab1853

muckworm1859

scuttler1867

gutter-snipec1869

gutter-child1870

gavroche1876

gutter-snippet1891

voyoua1896

street kid1910

dead-end kid1928

gurrier1936

1870 Public Opinion 16 July 57 It is not these gutter children alone for whom compulsion is wanted.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right II. xxii. 183 There were no poor in rags, no houseless women, no aged paupers, no gutter children, no street boys, no outcasts.

gutter-crawling n. the action of driving a car, etc., slowly along a road close to the pavement and attempting to entice into it women, esp. prostitutes (cf. kerb crawling n. at kerb n. Compounds 2).

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > frequenting prostitutes > kerb-crawling

cruising1927

gutter-crawling1945

kerb crawling1949

1945 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. vi. 504 Gutter-crawling is practised by mashers who run close to the sidewalk, hoping to pick up light-headed girls.

1968 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Nov. 3/5 Thirty-five men were fined..on ‘guttercrawling’ charges... The charges, under an Act promulgated last December alleged the men ‘loitered either to be accosted by a prostitute or for the purpose of inviting or soliciting any female to prostitute herself for pecuniary reward’.

gutter-drift n. = sense 1c.

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1887 H. H. Howorth Mammoth & Flood 372 Numerous remains of vegetation, we are told, occur in the gutter-drift in Victoria.

gutter-flag n. Australian (see quot.).

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1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 612 Gutter-flags—Flags fixed on the surface to denote where the course of gutter or lead underground has been discovered.

gutter-flanged adj. having a flange shaped like a gutter.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective] > having (type of) flange

flanched1793

flanged1797

gutter-flanged1869

flanging1880

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding ii. 20 To roll the gutter-flanged plate to the required form.

† gutter lane n. slang Obsolete the throat, gullet.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > throat or gullet > [noun]

rakeeOE

cudeOE

weasanda1000

chelc1000

throatOE

garget13..

gorgec1390

oesophagusa1398

meria1400

oesophagea1400

swallowa1400

cannelc1400

gull1412

channelc1425

halsec1440

gully1538

encla?1541

stomach?1541

lane1542

weasand-pipe1544

throttlea1547

meat-pipe1553

gargil1558

guttur1562

cropc1580

gurgulio1630

gule1659

gutter lane1684

red lane1701

swallow-pipe1786

neck1818

gullet-pipe1837

foodway1904

1684 G. S. Anglorum Speculum 483 All goeth down Gutter-lane (a small lane in the City). Appliable to great Gluttons and Drunkards.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Suit and Cloak, good store of..Liquor, let down Gutter-lane.

gutter-ledge n. Nautical (see quot.).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in deck > support or framework for

headledge1649

gutter-ledge1769

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Gutter-ledge, a cross bar laid along the middle of a large hatchway in some vessels, to support the covers, and enable them the better to sustain any weighty body.

gutter-man n. (a) a street vendor of cheap jewellery, fancy articles, toys, etc. (b) (U.S.) Logging, one who removes underbrush, fallen trees, and other obstacles in making a gutter road; (c) one who cleans out the gutters of buildings.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > street vendor

costermonger?1518

street vendor1840

street trader1845

coster1851

handseller1851

patterer1851

umbrella man1851

gutter-man1892

dragger1896

gutter-merchant1896

pitcher1896

pitchman1914

pitchwoman1927

barrow boy1939

fly-pitcher1965

mama put1979

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning house > [noun] > one who cleans gutters of buildings

gutter-man1892

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Apr. 6/1 For the past week the gutter-men have been driving a brisk trade in Boat Race favours.

1904 Dial. Notes 2 397 Gutterman, a term used in logging camps.

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §970 Roofman; gutterman; sweeps roofs and removes dirt and other obstruction from guttering, rain pipes, etc., of large buildings.

† gutter-master n. Obsolete (presumably) one who cleans out gutters.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun] > one who

mucker1229

raker1327

canel raker?1518

masser-scourer?1518

scavenger1530

sweep-street1553

channel raker1575

broom-man1592

broom-boy1593

gutter-master1607

rake-kennel1707

fulyie man1826

road sweeper1832

crossing-sweeper1841

street orderly1848

orderly1851

scavager1851

scaffy1853

broomer1857

sweep1858

roader1883

1607 J. Marston What you Will iii. i Francisco Soranzo and perfumer and muscat, and gutter maister.

gutter-mastership n.

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1607 J. Marston What you Will iii. i If I make you not loose your office of gutter Maister-ship, and you bee Skauenger next yeare well.

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gutter-member n. Architecture a member made by decorating the outside face of a gutter with regularly spaced ornaments.

gutter-merchant n. = gutter-man n.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > street vendor

costermonger?1518

street vendor1840

street trader1845

coster1851

handseller1851

patterer1851

umbrella man1851

gutter-man1892

dragger1896

gutter-merchant1896

pitcher1896

pitchman1914

pitchwoman1927

barrow boy1939

fly-pitcher1965

mama put1979

1896 Daily News 4 Aug. 3/4 Fine weather brings people out, and enables the ‘gutter merchant’ to display his stock-in-trade.

gutter plane n. a moulding-plane with a semi-cylindrical sole used in planing out gutters (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1884).

gutter-plate n. Shipbuilding (see quots.).

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1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding i. 10 The gutter-plates on the top of the floors, forming the flat central keelson.

1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 72 It has been a common practice to place no longitudinal tie between the outer keel and the longitudinal combination of plates and angle irons on the top of the floors, known as the gutter plate and keelson.

gutter road n. the path or track followed in skidding logs ( Terms Foresty & Logging, 1905).

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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 39 Gutter road.

gutter-snippet n. apparently meant as a diminutive of guttersnipe n.

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child

blackguard1699

street girl1764

street boy1796

mudlark1814

street urchin1827

gamin1832

street child1839

Arab1847

street Arab1853

muckworm1859

scuttler1867

gutter-snipec1869

gutter-child1870

gavroche1876

gutter-snippet1891

voyoua1896

street kid1910

dead-end kid1928

gurrier1936

1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed ix. 187 She's a dissolute little scarecrow,—a gutter-snippet and nothing more.

1931 S. Beckett Proust 61 But he does not proceed pari passu with..the Parnassians to the ineffable gutter-snippets of François Coppée.

gutter-sparrow n. = gutter-bird n.

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > person of the lowest class

ribalda1250

kitchen knave1440

scullion1483

scudler1488

canel raker?1518

channel raker1575

proletary1576

muckworm1649

proletariana1657

infimate1733

proletaire1796

coolie1803

gutterling1846

mudsill1858

prole1887

gutter-sparrow1890

gutter-bird1896

underworldling1928

delta1932

lumpenproletarian1936

proly1959

1890 Tablet 20 Dec. 961 He denounced his late comrades as gutter-sparrows.

gutter-splint n. a splint moulded to the shape of the limb.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > splint

spelkc1000

splintc1400

shindle1598

splinter1598

junk1617

fish1666

starch bandage1838

starch splint1843

pistol-splint1860

Balkan splint1916

gutter-splint1919

1919 W. Deeping Second Youth xxiv. 203 At his ease in a long cane chair, his left arm still in a gutter-splint.

1957 Encycl. Brit. IX. 577/2 Aluminium gutter splints are of value in some cases [of fracture] on account of their malleability and translucence to X-rays.

gutter-stall n. the stall of a gutter-man.

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society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > types of

luckenbooth1456

booby-hutch1830

bulkhead1836

gutter-stall1889

concession stand1894

1889 A. T. Pask Eyes of Thames 166 Let us look again at the butcher's shop, and then at the gutter stalls.

gutter-stick n. Printing one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.

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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > spacing material > that separates pages

gutter-stick1683

gutter1841

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 29 Gutter-sticks..are used to set between Pages on either side the Crosses... They have a Groove, or Gutter laid on the upper side of them, as well that the Water may drain away when the Form is Washed or Rinced, as that they should not Print, when through the tenderness of the Tinpan, the Plattin presses it and the Paper lower than ordinary.

gutter-tree n. the Wild Cornel or Dogwood, Cornus sanguinea ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).

gutter-way n. (a) = 2; (b) = gutter waterway n. at Compounds 1a.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gutter

gutter1355

gut1703

launder1891

gutter-way1908

1908 Daily Chron. 19 Aug. 3/4 Choked gutter-ways, creepers stuffed with unsightly straw..induced him..to order that the sparrow nests should be removed from the walls and eaves of his house.

1923 Man. Seamanship II. 280 To drain water from the decks..scuppers are fitted... These are led from the gutter~ways.

† gutter window n. Obsolete ? a window opening on to a gutter.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window

loop1393

shot-windowc1405

gable window1428

batement light1445

church window1458

shot1513

casement1538

dream-hole1559

luket1564

draw window1567

loop-window1574

loophole1591

tower-windowc1593

thorough lights1600

squinch1602

turret window1603

slit1607

close-shuts1615

gutter window1620

street lighta1625

balcony-window1635

clere-story window1679

slip1730

air-loop1758

Venetian1766

Venetian window1775

sidelight1779

lancet window1781

French casement1804

double window1819

couplet1844

spire-light1846

lancet1848

tower-light1848

triplet1849

bar-window1857

pair-light1868

nook window1878

coupled windows1881

three-light1908–9

north-light1919

storm window1933

borrowed light1934

Thermopane1941

storms1952

1620 J. Doughty in Lismore Papers (1887) 2nd Ser. II. 263 When he was in his howse [he] gote out att a gutter window and soe escaped.

1679 W. Bedloe Narr. Horrid Popish Plot 24 They ran together out at the Gutter-window.

C3. attributive passing into adj. Brought up in or appropriate to the gutter; of a low or disreputable character. (Frequently in gutter press, gutter journalism, etc.)

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective]

carlisha1240

lewdc1380

carlc1450

villain1483

ruffian1528

shake-ragged1550

porterlike1568

popular1583

ungracious1584

ordinarya1586

tapsterly1589

mechanic1598

round-headed1598

base-like1600

strummell-patch1600

porterly1603

scrubbing1603

vernaculous1607

plebeian1615

reptile1653

proletarian1663

mobbish1695

low1725

terraefilial1745

low-lifed1747

Whitechapel1785

lowlife1794

boweryish1846

gutter1849

bowery1852

lowish1886

swab1914

lumpen1944

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adjective] > belonging to the streets

gutter1849

1849 J. O. O'Connell Recoll. Parl. Career I. v. 104 Feargus O'Connor carried the election..he was everywhere and everything;—speechifier,..gutter-agent, mob leader.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) vii, in Writings I. 64 Could any of his gutter companions boast such greatness?

1884 Vice-Adm. Maxse in Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Mar. 2/1 All the gutter epithets which have been coined to express baffled malice and impotence.

1888 Sat. Rev. 20 Oct. 450/2 Evident..to any person who..has had some experience of the ways of gutter journalism.

1888 Sat. Rev. 20 Oct. 450/2 The gutter journalist.

1889 Sat. Rev. 16 Nov. 549/1 Mr. Conybeare had, according to a gutter journal, charged Sir Edward with saying..that [etc.].

1889 A. C. Swinburne Study of Jonson 70 The accents of some gutter gaolbird.

1890 Times 12 Mar. 5/1 The gutter language used by the Portuguese Republican Press.

1892 A. C. Swinburne Stud. Prose & Poetry (1894) 235 The gutter slang of those reactionary dis~unionists.

1899 Times (Weekly ed.) 520/2 The gutter Press of Paris.

1900 J. London Let. 1 Oct. (1966) 112 How different from the gutter attack of Robert Buchanan on Kipling and Besant!

1940 ‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 126 There is no clear reason why every adventure story should necessarily be mixed up with snobbishness and gutter patriotism.

1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. i. 24 Conscious Catullus, who made all His gutter-language musical.

1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 10 Dec. 4/4 Mr. Truman, a graduate of the Pendergast school of gutter politics, called the Red issue a ‘red herring’.

1955 J. Thomas No Banners xviii. 165 He found himself cursing under his breath, using foul Cockney gutter-slang that normally would have appalled him.

1957 ‘P. Quentin’ Suspicious Circumstances viii. 87 One of..those terrible gutter magazines which make fortunes unearthing people's private lives.

1958 P. G. Wodehouse Cocktail Time v. 45 To..sell this information to the gutter press for what it will fetch.

1959 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 22/4 One of the cheapest forms of gutter electioneering.

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guttermouth n. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) = potty mouth n. at potty n. Compounds; frequently attributive.

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the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > one who swears or abuses

curser1303

ribalda1325

warier1382

swearerc1386

reviler1517

reproacher?1532

scogginist1593

damme1618

foulmoutha1640

God damn me1640

damner1647

juror1653

comminator1682

muck-spouta1825

guttermouth1965

potty mouth1969

1965 G. Turner Waste of Shame ii. 33 Craig beckoned. ‘Come on, guttermouth.’

1976 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 18 Oct. 16/2 Customers who use the routine of hysterics..and plain guttermouth swearing.

1986 Washington Post 14 Nov. (Weekend section) 31/1 If you can overlook..[his] guttermouth, you might even find the chauvinist has developed some small empathy for females.

2004 Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton, Calif.) (Nexis) 15 Sept. Players hear some of the most guttermouth garbage imaginable.

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单词	gutter
释义	guttern.¹ Brit. /ˈɡʌtə/, U.S. /ˈɡədər/ Forms: Middle English goter, Middle English godere (1500s godard), gooter, gotur, guter, Middle English gotere, Middle English gotyr, guttyr, gutur, Middle English–1500s guttur, Middle English–1600s guttar, gutture, 1500s gotter, gutt(e)re, Scottish gutar, guttour, Middle English– gutter. Etymology: < Old French gutiere (12th cent. in Littré), goutiere (13th cent.), modern French gouttière (feminine) (= Provençal, Spanish gotera , Portuguese goteira ), also Old French gou(t)tier (masculine) (1325 in Godefroy), < goutte drop (see gout n.¹). †1. a. A watercourse, natural or artificial; in later use, a small brook or channel. In 14–15th centuries often used to render Latin stillicidium (shower), catarractes (cataract, deluge), etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > watercourse or channel runeOE sitchOE pipeOE sichetc1133 guttera1300 siket1300 sikec1330 watergate1368 gole?a1400 gotea1400 flout14.. aa1430 trough1513 guta1552 race1570 lode1572 canala1576 ditch1589 trink1592 leam1601 dike1616 runlet1630 stell1651 nullah1656 course1665 drain1700 lade1706 droke1772 regimen1797 draught1807 adit1808 sluit1818 thalweg1831 runway1874 a1300 E.E. Psalter lxxi[i]. 6 He sat douncome..Als goters droppand þe erthe ogaine. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. viii. 2 The wellys of the see and the goterys of heuene ben closid. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 181 Þe ryuer Danubius..is..i-ladde in to dyuerse places of þe cite by goteres [L. canalibus] vnder erþe. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) xiii. xvi To renewe and refresche pondes fresche water is lad and brouȝte by goderes [1495 gutters] condites and pipes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 206/1 Gotere vndyr þe grownde, cataduppa, cataracta. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 799/44 Hic gurges, a gotyr. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. B vij^v Henbayne..groweth..about guttures and ditches. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 137 He [Tigris] takes his way vnder the earth through certain blinde gutters. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 50 Some standing Lake Which neighbour Mountains with their gutters make. 1675 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1893) IV. 39 On ye East sid of a little gutter on ye south side of a swompe. 1786 R. Burns Holy Fair vii, in Poems 43 Swankies young, in braw braid-claith, Are springan owre the gutters. 1797 B. Trumbull Compl. Hist. Connecticut 24 In the low lands, on the banks of the rivers, by the brooks and gutters, there was a variety and plenty of grapes. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) iii. 32 We crossed a brook..called Jeremiah's Gutter. b. A furrow or track made by running water. ΚΠ 1586 D. Rowland tr. H. de Mendoza Pleasant Hist. Lazarillo (1677) D 2 a A great wide Gutter which the raine had made. 1637 S. Rutherford Let. 13 Mar. (1848) cxxxviii. 258 Prisoners of hope must run to Christ, with the gutters that tears have made on their cheeks. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 164 The rude Prospects of many Rocks rising one above another, of the deep Gutters worn in the Sides of 'em by the Torrents of Rain. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 94 There had been some heavy storms of rain, and the water lay in deep gutters on the sides of the gravel-walks. c. Australian. Gold-mining. The lower part of the channel of an old river of the Tertiary period containing auriferous deposits. ΚΠ 1856 S. Davison Let. 13 Aug. in W. B. Clarke Res. S. Gold Fields New S. Wales (1860) iv. 50 Pebble-covered local gold in evenly-spread beds or linear troughs of leads or gutters. 1864 J. Rogers New Rush 55 Duffers are so common And golden gutters rare. 1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. i. 20 The gutter..proved remunerative enough to keep the mine going, and pay all the men. 2. A shallow trough fixed under the eaves of a roof, or a channel running between two sloping roofs, to carry off the rainwater. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gutter gutter1355 gut1703 launder1891 gutter-way1908 1355 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 92 In mercede j hominis mundantis guteres circa ecclesiam pro ij vicibus 6d. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Sam. v. 8 The goters of the hows eues. 1472 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 246 12d. solut. pro reparacione unius guttur plumb. cameræ. 1522 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 16 Paid to the plumer for metal to Sowder the gutters iij^s iiij^d. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 29 Water they save likewise from their houses, by gutters at the eves, which carrie it down to cisterns. 1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Archit. (1818) 85 Experience has taught men to carry off the droppings from their shelving roofs by placing gutters in them. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 220 Bridged Gutters—Gutters made with boards, supported below with bearers, and covered over with lead. 1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter iii Dax's window opened on to a gutter. 3. a. A hollowed channel running at the side or (less commonly) along the middle of a street, to carry away the surface water. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > gutter in a street gutter1408 cannel1422 channel1440 kennel1582 ginnel1613 water table1664 channelling1834 1408 Durham Acc. Roll in Eng. Hist. Rev. XIV. 517 Soluta..laborariis..facientibus unam gutteram lapideam et illam in dicto Watergate ponentibus. 1449–50 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 276 Pro emendacione et le pavyng 1 gutter juxta capellam, 3s. 4d. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1607 The water..Gosshet through Godardys & other grete vautes. 1553 in Halliwell Shaks. (1887) II. 141 That every tenaunt do scour and kep cleane ther gutteres or dyches in the same lane. 1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 165 Hee cannot doe so much good as a Fellow that sweepes gutters. a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) ii. 58 A Gutter is of a less size, and of a narrower passage and current then a Sewer is; and as I take it, a Gutter is the diminutive of a Sewer. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 317. ¶9 Went to the Club. Like to have faln into a Gutter. 1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. II. 2 Flagstones which slope from the houses towards the middle of the streets to form a gutter. 1840 R. H. Barham Cynotaph in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 112 (note) All bare and exposed to the midnight dews, Reclined in a gutter we found him. 1898 I. Zangwill Dreamers of Ghetto iv. 128 The gutters run blood. b. figurative. Taken as the typical haunt of persons, esp. children, of low birth or breeding. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun] > of low classes or criminals flash-house1816 joint1821 gutterc1846 c1846 W. E. Forster in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) I. vi. 169 I would strive..to get the children of the working classes out of the gutter, by educating them. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. iii. 95 The women I have cared for in days gone by have hardly got over their early affinity with the gutter. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon I. i. i. 46 To take a girl out of the gutter and pretend that she is a lady. 1890 H. Caine Bondman ii. i If he came to die in the gutter, who should say that it had not served him right? 1896 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 62 234/2 Slang of the slums and the gutter. c. A channel forming a receptacle for dirt or filth; a sink. literal and figurative. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer cockey1390 gutterc1440 soughc1440 sew1475 withdraught1493 sink1499 syre1513 closet1531 draught1533 vault1533 drain1552 fleet1583 issue1588 drainer1598 guzzle1598 shore1598 sewer1609 vennel1641 cloaca1656 cuniculus1670 pend1817 thurrock1847 sewer line1977 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 206/2 Gotere, ad purgandum feces coquine. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) Let. ii. f. 102 Thou Rome shalte be the syncke and gutter of the fylthynes of Asye. 1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxix. sig. Q6 A true thing out of the gutter of a false throate can hardly escape corrupting. 1718 T. Gordon in Cordial Low-spirits (1750) 30 Girding it 'till you have quite stopped up the Gutter through which the aforesaid excrements issue. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gutter, Gutter-hole, a sink or kennel. The general sense of gutter is a passage for water particularly, but not exclusively, from the roofs of houses. But with us the idea of filth is inseparable from it. d. Mud, filth. Chiefly Scottish (only plural). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > mud loamc725 fenc897 addleOE fanc1340 mudc1400 slutchc1400 slikec1425 slipc1440 slobber1440 sorec1440 sludge1649 mux1746 gutter1785 slakec1800 sposh1836 mudge1848 1785 Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. 28 Sae smear'd wi' gutters was his buik, He stinket in his hide. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gutter-slush, gutter, kennel dirt. ‘She fell down in the street, and her clothes were all over nothing but gutter.’ 1866 D. Mitchell Hist. Montrose xxii. 162 She quenched his oratory with a mouthful of gutters. 4. A shallow trough or open conduit or pipe for the outflow of fluid. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > open for outflow of liquid gutter1657 waygate1833 getaway1876 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 90 Under the rollers, there is a receiver..into which the liquor falls, and..runs under ground in a pipe or gutter of lead. 1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller i. xvi. 74 By placing in the middle of the Tub a wooden Pipe or Gutter. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 417 Sometimes the trunk of a fir-tree, hollowed out, so as to form a kind of gutter, is placed in an inclined position. 1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church in Church Bells Devon i. 204 The fused metal is carried at once from the furnace to the pit by means of a series of gutters. †5. a. A groove or elongated hollow in an animal or vegetable body. Obsolete in general sense. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > groove or furrow gutter1553 scissure1607 rut1615 fissure1656 sulcus1744 groove1789 canaliculation1797 fossule1803 fossula1811 furrow1819 sulcation1852 sulculus1859 vallecula1859 1553 N. Udall tr. T. Gemini Compend. Anat. B iij b/2 Thys concauite or dyche or gutter [of the Nose]. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xl. 709 A rough harde stone, full of creastes and gutters, within whiche is a kernell lyke an Almonde. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 425 All which veines are easie inough to know, because that euery one lyeth in a little gutter. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 9 His buttocke round, plumpe, and full, without eyther gutter or deuision of ioynts. 1616 A. Read Εωματογραϕία Ανθρωπίη 20 The sinus of the gutture of the arme receiuing the cubit. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 42 These Seeds are separated from one another by Leaves folded into a Gutter. †b. spec. Hunting. One of the grooves in the ‘beam’ of a hart's ‘head’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > main stem of > groove in valea1425 gutter1575 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxi. 53 The thing that beareth the Antliers, Royals, and toppes, ought to be called the beame, and the little clyffes or streakes therein are called gutters. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gutters, the little Streak in a Deer's Beam. c. Entomology. Applied to certain folds on the hinder wings of lepidoptera. ΚΠ 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 360 Internal margin of the lower wings arched and projecting over the abdomen to form a gutter. 6. A groove or channel of artificial formation. Now only technical. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves > a groove, channel, or furrow furrowc1374 groopc1440 regal1458 rat1513 slot?1523 gutter1555 chamfer1601 channel1611 fluting1611 furrowing1611 rita1657 denervation1657 rigol1658 groove1659 riggota1661 rake1672 stria1673 champer1713 cannelure1755 gully1803 channelure1823 flute1842 rill1855 droke1880 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > crossbow > part where bolt positioned trenchefil1369 gutter1555 chase1611 trench1611 killesse1867 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 159^v They are curiously buylded with many pleasaunt diuises, as..turrettes, portals, gutters. 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 23 A pistoll..hauing eight gutters somewhat deepe in the inside of the barrell. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Coulisse d'un arbaleste, the hollow furrow wherein the arrow lyes; we call it, the gutter, or chace. 1659 T. Willsford Architectonice 31 The Dorick order,..this Column..more adorned then the last, to which some adde Flutings, or gutters. 1682 London Gaz. No. 1684/4 A black brown Gelding..three Gutters cut in his Hoof. 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 106 The workman..ploughs out the gutter for the lodgment of the barrel [of a gun]. 1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 187 The stamping shop, where girls, with inconceivable rapidity, place each wire beneath a die, and stamp exactly in the middle thereof two eyes, and two channels, or gutters as they are termed. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Gutter, a hollow or groove running down the centre of a knife spring. 7. In Printing = gutter-stick n. at Compounds 2. Also in Bookbinding, ‘the white space between the pages of a book’ (Barrère and Leland Slang, 1889). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > spacing material > that separates pages gutter-stick1683 gutter1841 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing (at cited word) We now mean by the term Gutter, the piece of furniture that separates two adjoining pages in a chase, as in an octavo that between pages 1 and 16, in a duodecimo that between pages 1 and 24 and so on. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 55 Gutter, the ‘back’ margin or furniture of a sheet. This is the part of a sheet which when folded falls in the back of the book. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations. Also gutter-blood n., guttersnipe n., gutter-tile n., etc. a. gutter-boy n. ΚΠ 1901 G. K. Chesterton Defendant 15 We rate the gutter-boys for their immorality. gutter-brat n. ΚΠ 1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xii. 80 He was a gutter-brat. gutter-canal n. ΚΠ 1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night i. iii. 23 The gutter-canal that ran along the middle of the street as the serpent's inverted spine. gutter channel n. ΚΠ 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 32^v Gutter, chanilles, uncleane kept. gutter-girl n. ΚΠ 1909 Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 3/1 A devoted priest, a noble gutter-girl,..—these are Mrs. Baillie Saunders's stock-in-trade. gutter-hole n. ΚΠ 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 636 Who having dined abroad, returning late, Besplash your stockings in the gutter-hole. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gutter, Gutter-hole, a sink or kennel. gutter-level n. ΚΠ 1880 Victorian Rev. (Melbourne) Feb. 656 The gutters had virtually sucked them dry, and had left no gold worth having above the gutter-level. gutter-lout n. ΚΠ 1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent i. 8 A real gutter-lout came to look at their counterslips. gutter-mongrel n. ΚΠ a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 21 Not fit to be trusted with any dog but a gutter-mongrel. gutter-snippet n. gutter spout n. ΚΠ 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 279 Would any wise man..trust to a gutter-spout to quench his thirst, when he might goe to a spring? 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iv. iii Then the whole scene changed, and he thought himself a monk's-head on a gutter-spout. gutter stone n. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/1 Guttar stone. gutter-sweeping n. ΚΠ 1954 W. Faulkner Fable (1955) 26 The African regiment recruited from the prison- and gutter-sweepings of Europe. gutter water n. ΚΠ 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 361 A lesser Conduit..carried the Gutter-Water of several Streets. gutter waterway n. ΚΠ 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 123 In some cases, a gutter waterway is fitted on the inside of the stanchions, the wood waterway being between the side plating and gutter waterway. gutter work n. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Caneleure,..gutter-worke (in stone, or timber). b. gutter-bred adj. ΚΠ 1877 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VII. lxxvi. 108 Any young gutter-bred black~guard. gutter-draggled adj. ΚΠ 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby I. 95 Her sordid, mercenary, little gutter-draggled soul. gutter-gorging adj. ΚΠ 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 275 Guttur gorging durty muds. gutter-grubbing adj. ΚΠ 1795 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 148 O God! that such a mind should fall in love with that low, dirty, gutter-grubbing trull, Worldly Prudence! gutter-like adj. ΚΠ 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. v. 117 The scoop (sinus) is the hollowed, or gutter-like process placed side-ways of the beak, and lower down on the very lip. c. gutter-wise adv. ΚΠ 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden xvii. 35 A..peece of soft wax, made a little hollow, gutter~wise. C2. gutter-bearer n. ‘the sort of joist upon which the boarding for a gutter is laid’ ( Dict. Archit. 1852). gutter-bird n. the sparrow, hence figurative, a disreputable person. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person wormc825 wretchOE thingOE hinderlingc1175 harlot?c1225 mixa1300 villain1303 whelpc1330 wonnera1340 bismera1400 vilec1400 beasta1425 creaturec1450 dog bolt1465 fouling?a1475 drivel1478 shit1508 marmoset1523 mammeta1529 pilgarlica1529 pode1528 slave1537 slim1548 skit-brains?1553 grasshopper1556 scavenger1563 old boss1566 rag1566 shrub1566 ketterela1572 shake-rag1571 skybala1572 mumpsimus1573 smatchetc1582 squib1586 scabship1589 vassal1589 baboon1592 Gibraltar1593 polecat1593 mushroom1594 nodc1595 cittern-head1598 nit1598 stockfish1598 cum-twang1599 dish-wash1599 pettitoe1599 mustard-token1600 viliaco1600 cargo1602 stump1602 snotty-nose1604 sprat1605 wormling1605 brock1607 dogfly?1611 shag-rag1611 shack-rag1612 thrum1612 rabbita1616 fitchock1616 unworthy1616 baseling1618 shag1620 glow-worm1624 snip1633 the son of a worm1633 grousea1637 shab1637 wormship1648 muckworm1649 whiffler1659 prig1679 rotten egg1686 prigster1688 begged fool1693 hang-dog1693 bugger1694 reptile1697 squinny1716 snool1718 ramscallion1734 footer1748 jackass1756 hallion1789 skite1790 rattlesnake1791 snot1809 mudworm1814 skunk1816 stirrah1816 spalpeen1817 nyaff1825 skin1825 weed1825 tiger1827 beggar1834 despicability1837 squirt1844 prawn1845 shake1846 white mouse1846 scurf1851 sweep1853 cockroach1856 bummer1857 medlar1859 cunt1860 shuck1862 missing link1863 schweinhund1871 creepa1876 bum1882 trashbag1886 tinhorn1887 snot-rag1888 rodent1889 whelpling1889 pie eatera1891 mess1891 schmuck1892 fucker1893 cheapskate1894 cocksucker1894 gutter-bird1896 perisher1896 skate1896 schmendrick1897 nyamps1900 ullage1901 fink1903 onion1904 punk1904 shitepoke1905 tinhorn sport1906 streeler1907 zob1911 stink1916 motherfucker1918 Oscar1918 shitass1918 shit-face1923 tripe-hound1923 gimp1924 garbage can1925 twerp1925 jughead1926 mong1926 fuck?1927 arsehole1928 dirty dog1928 gazook1928 muzzler1928 roach1929 shite1929 mook1930 lug1931 slug1931 woodchuck1931 crud1932 dip1932 bohunkus1933 lint-head1933 Nimrod1933 warb1933 fuck-piga1935 owl-hoot1934 pissant1935 poot1935 shmegegge1937 motheree1938 motorcycle1938 squiff1939 pendejo1940 snotnose1941 jerkface1942 slag1943 yuck1943 fuckface?1945 fuckhead?1945 shit-head1945 shite-hawk1948 schlub1950 asswipe1953 mother1955 weenie1956 hard-on1958 rass hole1959 schmucko1959 bitch ass1961 effer1961 lamer1961 arsewipe1962 asshole1962 butthole1962 cock1962 dipshit1963 motherfuck1964 dork1965 bumhole1967 mofo1967 tosspot1967 crudball1968 dipstick1968 douche1968 frickface1968 schlong1968 fuckwit1969 rassclaat1969 ass1970 wank1970 fecker1971 wanker1971 butt-fucker1972 slimeball1972 bloodclaat1973 fuckwad1974 mutha1974 suck1974 cocksuck1977 tosser1977 plank1981 sleazebag1981 spastic1981 dweeb1982 bumboclaat1983 dickwad1983 scuzzbag1983 sleazeball1983 butt-face1984 dickweed1984 saddie1985 butt plug1986 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 microcephalic1989 wankstain1990 sadster1992 buttmunch1993 fanny1995 jackhole1996 fassyhole1997 fannybaws2000 fassy2002 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > person of the lowest class ribalda1250 kitchen knave1440 scullion1483 scudler1488 canel raker?1518 channel raker1575 proletary1576 muckworm1649 proletariana1657 infimate1733 proletaire1796 coolie1803 gutterling1846 mudsill1858 prole1887 gutter-sparrow1890 gutter-bird1896 underworldling1928 delta1932 lumpenproletarian1936 proly1959 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > genus Passer > passer domesticus (sparrow) sparrowc725 phipc1400 Philipa1500 house sparrow1653 spug1808 sprug1815 spruggie1845 spurgie1849 spadger1862 spur1866 spuggy1874 spurg1882 gutter-bird1896 sparrer1935 1896 Westm. Gaz. 18 Feb. 5/2 They seem to bear the same relation to ordinary dogs as the lowest gutter-bird does to a respectable man. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 2/3 The sparrow has a strong idea in his impudent little head that everything belongs to him... This..will not do for such a refined city as Boston, and so the fiat has gone forth against the little gutter bird. gutter-board n. a board forming the foundation on which is laid the lining-material forming the gutter itself. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gutter > part of gutter-board1703 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 162 In these Plain-tile-gutters, there is a Gutter-board laid which raises them. 1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Gutter-board. gutter-child n. a child such as haunts the street gutters, one of low birth or breeding. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child blackguard1699 street girl1764 street boy1796 mudlark1814 street urchin1827 gamin1832 street child1839 Arab1847 street Arab1853 muckworm1859 scuttler1867 gutter-snipec1869 gutter-child1870 gavroche1876 gutter-snippet1891 voyoua1896 street kid1910 dead-end kid1928 gurrier1936 1870 Public Opinion 16 July 57 It is not these gutter children alone for whom compulsion is wanted. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right II. xxii. 183 There were no poor in rags, no houseless women, no aged paupers, no gutter children, no street boys, no outcasts. gutter-crawling n. the action of driving a car, etc., slowly along a road close to the pavement and attempting to entice into it women, esp. prostitutes (cf. kerb crawling n. at kerb n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > frequenting prostitutes > kerb-crawling cruising1927 gutter-crawling1945 kerb crawling1949 1945 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. vi. 504 Gutter-crawling is practised by mashers who run close to the sidewalk, hoping to pick up light-headed girls. 1968 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Nov. 3/5 Thirty-five men were fined..on ‘guttercrawling’ charges... The charges, under an Act promulgated last December alleged the men ‘loitered either to be accosted by a prostitute or for the purpose of inviting or soliciting any female to prostitute herself for pecuniary reward’. gutter-drift n. = sense 1c. ΚΠ 1887 H. H. Howorth Mammoth & Flood 372 Numerous remains of vegetation, we are told, occur in the gutter-drift in Victoria. gutter-flag n. Australian (see quot.). ΚΠ 1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 612 Gutter-flags—Flags fixed on the surface to denote where the course of gutter or lead underground has been discovered. gutter-flanged adj. having a flange shaped like a gutter. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective] > having (type of) flange flanched1793 flanged1797 gutter-flanged1869 flanging1880 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding ii. 20 To roll the gutter-flanged plate to the required form. † gutter lane n. slang Obsolete the throat, gullet. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > throat or gullet > [noun] rakeeOE cudeOE weasanda1000 chelc1000 throatOE garget13.. gorgec1390 oesophagusa1398 meria1400 oesophagea1400 swallowa1400 cannelc1400 gull1412 channelc1425 halsec1440 gully1538 encla?1541 stomach?1541 lane1542 weasand-pipe1544 throttlea1547 meat-pipe1553 gargil1558 guttur1562 cropc1580 gurgulio1630 gule1659 gutter lane1684 red lane1701 swallow-pipe1786 neck1818 gullet-pipe1837 foodway1904 1684 G. S. Anglorum Speculum 483 All goeth down Gutter-lane (a small lane in the City). Appliable to great Gluttons and Drunkards. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Suit and Cloak, good store of..Liquor, let down Gutter-lane. gutter-ledge n. Nautical (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in deck > support or framework for headledge1649 gutter-ledge1769 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Gutter-ledge, a cross bar laid along the middle of a large hatchway in some vessels, to support the covers, and enable them the better to sustain any weighty body. gutter-man n. (a) a street vendor of cheap jewellery, fancy articles, toys, etc. (b) (U.S.) Logging, one who removes underbrush, fallen trees, and other obstacles in making a gutter road; (c) one who cleans out the gutters of buildings. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > street vendor costermonger?1518 street vendor1840 street trader1845 coster1851 handseller1851 patterer1851 umbrella man1851 gutter-man1892 dragger1896 gutter-merchant1896 pitcher1896 pitchman1914 pitchwoman1927 barrow boy1939 fly-pitcher1965 mama put1979 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning house > [noun] > one who cleans gutters of buildings gutter-man1892 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Apr. 6/1 For the past week the gutter-men have been driving a brisk trade in Boat Race favours. 1904 Dial. Notes 2 397 Gutterman, a term used in logging camps. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §970 Roofman; gutterman; sweeps roofs and removes dirt and other obstruction from guttering, rain pipes, etc., of large buildings. † gutter-master n. Obsolete (presumably) one who cleans out gutters. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun] > one who mucker1229 raker1327 canel raker?1518 masser-scourer?1518 scavenger1530 sweep-street1553 channel raker1575 broom-man1592 broom-boy1593 gutter-master1607 rake-kennel1707 fulyie man1826 road sweeper1832 crossing-sweeper1841 street orderly1848 orderly1851 scavager1851 scaffy1853 broomer1857 sweep1858 roader1883 1607 J. Marston What you Will iii. i Francisco Soranzo and perfumer and muscat, and gutter maister. gutter-mastership n. ΚΠ 1607 J. Marston What you Will iii. i If I make you not loose your office of gutter Maister-ship, and you bee Skauenger next yeare well. Categories » gutter-member n. Architecture a member made by decorating the outside face of a gutter with regularly spaced ornaments. gutter-merchant n. = gutter-man n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > street vendor costermonger?1518 street vendor1840 street trader1845 coster1851 handseller1851 patterer1851 umbrella man1851 gutter-man1892 dragger1896 gutter-merchant1896 pitcher1896 pitchman1914 pitchwoman1927 barrow boy1939 fly-pitcher1965 mama put1979 1896 Daily News 4 Aug. 3/4 Fine weather brings people out, and enables the ‘gutter merchant’ to display his stock-in-trade. gutter plane n. a moulding-plane with a semi-cylindrical sole used in planing out gutters (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1884). gutter-plate n. Shipbuilding (see quots.). ΚΠ 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding i. 10 The gutter-plates on the top of the floors, forming the flat central keelson. 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 72 It has been a common practice to place no longitudinal tie between the outer keel and the longitudinal combination of plates and angle irons on the top of the floors, known as the gutter plate and keelson. gutter road n. the path or track followed in skidding logs ( Terms Foresty & Logging, 1905). ΚΠ 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 39 Gutter road. gutter-snippet n. apparently meant as a diminutive of guttersnipe n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child blackguard1699 street girl1764 street boy1796 mudlark1814 street urchin1827 gamin1832 street child1839 Arab1847 street Arab1853 muckworm1859 scuttler1867 gutter-snipec1869 gutter-child1870 gavroche1876 gutter-snippet1891 voyoua1896 street kid1910 dead-end kid1928 gurrier1936 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed ix. 187 She's a dissolute little scarecrow,—a gutter-snippet and nothing more. 1931 S. Beckett Proust 61 But he does not proceed pari passu with..the Parnassians to the ineffable gutter-snippets of François Coppée. gutter-sparrow n. = gutter-bird n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > person of the lowest class ribalda1250 kitchen knave1440 scullion1483 scudler1488 canel raker?1518 channel raker1575 proletary1576 muckworm1649 proletariana1657 infimate1733 proletaire1796 coolie1803 gutterling1846 mudsill1858 prole1887 gutter-sparrow1890 gutter-bird1896 underworldling1928 delta1932 lumpenproletarian1936 proly1959 1890 Tablet 20 Dec. 961 He denounced his late comrades as gutter-sparrows. gutter-splint n. a splint moulded to the shape of the limb. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > splint spelkc1000 splintc1400 shindle1598 splinter1598 junk1617 fish1666 starch bandage1838 starch splint1843 pistol-splint1860 Balkan splint1916 gutter-splint1919 1919 W. Deeping Second Youth xxiv. 203 At his ease in a long cane chair, his left arm still in a gutter-splint. 1957 Encycl. Brit. IX. 577/2 Aluminium gutter splints are of value in some cases [of fracture] on account of their malleability and translucence to X-rays. gutter-stall n. the stall of a gutter-man. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > types of luckenbooth1456 booby-hutch1830 bulkhead1836 gutter-stall1889 concession stand1894 1889 A. T. Pask Eyes of Thames 166 Let us look again at the butcher's shop, and then at the gutter stalls. gutter-stick n. Printing one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > spacing material > that separates pages gutter-stick1683 gutter1841 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 29 Gutter-sticks..are used to set between Pages on either side the Crosses... They have a Groove, or Gutter laid on the upper side of them, as well that the Water may drain away when the Form is Washed or Rinced, as that they should not Print, when through the tenderness of the Tinpan, the Plattin presses it and the Paper lower than ordinary. gutter-tree n. the Wild Cornel or Dogwood, Cornus sanguinea ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). gutter-way n. (a) = 2; (b) = gutter waterway n. at Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gutter gutter1355 gut1703 launder1891 gutter-way1908 1908 Daily Chron. 19 Aug. 3/4 Choked gutter-ways, creepers stuffed with unsightly straw..induced him..to order that the sparrow nests should be removed from the walls and eaves of his house. 1923 Man. Seamanship II. 280 To drain water from the decks..scuppers are fitted... These are led from the gutter~ways. † gutter window n. Obsolete ? a window opening on to a gutter. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window loop1393 shot-windowc1405 gable window1428 batement light1445 church window1458 shot1513 casement1538 dream-hole1559 luket1564 draw window1567 loop-window1574 loophole1591 tower-windowc1593 thorough lights1600 squinch1602 turret window1603 slit1607 close-shuts1615 gutter window1620 street lighta1625 balcony-window1635 clere-story window1679 slip1730 air-loop1758 Venetian1766 Venetian window1775 sidelight1779 lancet window1781 French casement1804 double window1819 couplet1844 spire-light1846 lancet1848 tower-light1848 triplet1849 bar-window1857 pair-light1868 nook window1878 coupled windows1881 three-light1908–9 north-light1919 storm window1933 borrowed light1934 Thermopane1941 storms1952 1620 J. Doughty in Lismore Papers (1887) 2nd Ser. II. 263 When he was in his howse [he] gote out att a gutter window and soe escaped. 1679 W. Bedloe Narr. Horrid Popish Plot 24 They ran together out at the Gutter-window. C3. attributive passing into adj. Brought up in or appropriate to the gutter; of a low or disreputable character. (Frequently in gutter press, gutter journalism, etc.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective] carlisha1240 lewdc1380 carlc1450 villain1483 ruffian1528 shake-ragged1550 porterlike1568 popular1583 ungracious1584 ordinarya1586 tapsterly1589 mechanic1598 round-headed1598 base-like1600 strummell-patch1600 porterly1603 scrubbing1603 vernaculous1607 plebeian1615 reptile1653 proletarian1663 mobbish1695 low1725 terraefilial1745 low-lifed1747 Whitechapel1785 lowlife1794 boweryish1846 gutter1849 bowery1852 lowish1886 swab1914 lumpen1944 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adjective] > belonging to the streets gutter1849 1849 J. O. O'Connell Recoll. Parl. Career I. v. 104 Feargus O'Connor carried the election..he was everywhere and everything;—speechifier,..gutter-agent, mob leader. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) vii, in Writings I. 64 Could any of his gutter companions boast such greatness? 1884 Vice-Adm. Maxse in Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Mar. 2/1 All the gutter epithets which have been coined to express baffled malice and impotence. 1888 Sat. Rev. 20 Oct. 450/2 Evident..to any person who..has had some experience of the ways of gutter journalism. 1888 Sat. Rev. 20 Oct. 450/2 The gutter journalist. 1889 Sat. Rev. 16 Nov. 549/1 Mr. Conybeare had, according to a gutter journal, charged Sir Edward with saying..that [etc.]. 1889 A. C. Swinburne Study of Jonson 70 The accents of some gutter gaolbird. 1890 Times 12 Mar. 5/1 The gutter language used by the Portuguese Republican Press. 1892 A. C. Swinburne Stud. Prose & Poetry (1894) 235 The gutter slang of those reactionary dis~unionists. 1899 Times (Weekly ed.) 520/2 The gutter Press of Paris. 1900 J. London Let. 1 Oct. (1966) 112 How different from the gutter attack of Robert Buchanan on Kipling and Besant! 1940 ‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 126 There is no clear reason why every adventure story should necessarily be mixed up with snobbishness and gutter patriotism. 1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. i. 24 Conscious Catullus, who made all His gutter-language musical. 1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 10 Dec. 4/4 Mr. Truman, a graduate of the Pendergast school of gutter politics, called the Red issue a ‘red herring’. 1955 J. Thomas No Banners xviii. 165 He found himself cursing under his breath, using foul Cockney gutter-slang that normally would have appalled him. 1957 ‘P. Quentin’ Suspicious Circumstances viii. 87 One of..those terrible gutter magazines which make fortunes unearthing people's private lives. 1958 P. G. Wodehouse Cocktail Time v. 45 To..sell this information to the gutter press for what it will fetch. 1959 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 22/4 One of the cheapest forms of gutter electioneering. Draft additions August 2007 guttermouth n. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) = potty mouth n. at potty n. Compounds; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > one who swears or abuses curser1303 ribalda1325 warier1382 swearerc1386 reviler1517 reproacher?1532 scogginist1593 damme1618 foulmoutha1640 God damn me1640 damner1647 juror1653 comminator1682 muck-spouta1825 guttermouth1965 potty mouth1969 1965 G. Turner Waste of Shame ii. 33 Craig beckoned. ‘Come on, guttermouth.’ 1976 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 18 Oct. 16/2 Customers who use the routine of hysterics..and plain guttermouth swearing. 1986 Washington Post 14 Nov. (Weekend section) 31/1 If you can overlook..[his] guttermouth, you might even find the chauvinist has developed some small empathy for females. 2004 Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton, Calif.) (Nexis) 15 Sept. Players hear some of the most guttermouth garbage imaginable. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). guttern.² Brit. /ˈɡʌtə/, U.S. /ˈɡədər/ Etymology: < gut v. + -er suffix¹. One who guts. 1. One employed in disembowelling fish or animals. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > filleting or gutting > one who giller1251 gutter1780 filleter1884 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 148 Fishermen 90, Gutters 40. 1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 280 Here the animal falls into the hands of the gutter who tears out the inside, stripping at the rate of three hogs to the minute. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 43 Bevies of young women employed as gutters. 1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 310 The wives and daughters [of the fishermen] are gutters or packers or salters. 1963 Guardian 18 Sept. 10/6 Is it possible that..there is a clever summary in the last few pages..making the document easy work for an accomplished ‘gutter’ which I feel sure Mr Wilson is? 2. One who guts buildings. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > vandalism or iconoclasm > gutting or removing parts of (a building, etc.) > one who guts buildings guttera1734 a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §93 277 He was a great Inquisitor of Priests and Jesuits, and Gutter (as the Term was for Stripping) of Popish Chapels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gutterv. Brit. /ˈɡʌtə/, U.S. /ˈɡədər/ Etymology: < gutter n.¹ 1. a. transitive. To make gutters in; to furnish with gutters; to channel or furrow with streams, tears, or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > ditch [verb (transitive)] > to furnish with gutter1387 the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > form (a groove) > make grooves in gutter1387 groop1412 channel?1440 chamfer1565 flute1578 plough1594 seam1596 entrench1607 furrow1609 trench1624 groove1686 striate1709 quirk1797 stripe1842 engroove1880 1387 Charters St. Giles (1859) p. x Alswa betwene the chapellis, guteryt with hewyn stane to cast the watir owte, and to save the werc fro the watir. 1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Iob xvi. 33 in Paraphr. Divine Poems My cheeks are gutterd with my fretting teares. 1640 Bp. H. King Serm. 51 Her wrinckled face, guttered with the Teares of her decay. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 149 There is meadow land and bog, which being guttered ditched and drained..will be good and rich meadow. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 134 A narrow Flooring, gutter'd, wall'd, and til'd. View more context for this quotation 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 41 To discharge the Wet that might otherwise gutter the Walks. 1796 Trans. Soc. Arts 14 122 The field..has been remarkably well drained and guttered. 1832 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 269 Steps..once neatly fluted but now guttered by the weather. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Gutter, to drain land with open drains. †b. To carry off (water) by means of gutters. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > ditch [verb (transitive)] ditch1393 gutterc1420 water-furrow?1523 trench1530 gut1557 plough-trench1712 thorough-drain1838 neck1844 sheugh1882 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. xii. 289 Transplauntynge hem is best at yeeris too, So gutteryng [so MS. Bodl.] the water from hem shelue; Yf water stonde on hem, they beth fordo. 2. intransitive. Of water: To form gutters or gullies. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > erode [verb (intransitive)] > cut channels or holes gull1587 gutter1632 cañon1851 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 282 The Brooke Cedron (which guttereth through the valley). 1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 69 I looked very carefully in Gullies, and places where Water had guttered. 3. To flow in streams, to stream down. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (transitive)] > down gutter1582 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 77 His mynd vnuariant doth stand, tears vaynelye doe gutter. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 72 That abundance of teares which fell guttering downe his cheekes. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 335 Their lab'ring sides Are swell'd, and Sweat runs gutt'ring down in Tides. 1714 S. Garth Dispensary (ed. 7) v. 66 Tears of Amber gutter'd down his Cheeks. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 192 You may see the grimy housewife, before the shower is ended, letting the rain-drops gutter down her visage. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 287 They must be fond of gold who can catch it by handfuls, guttering down like this in streams of fire. 1891 E. Phillpotts Folly & Fresh Air vii. 117 A little stream that guttered down the hill-side. †4. transitive. To discharge in streams. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > emit [verb (transitive)] > in (a) stream(s) spin1610 guttera1618 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > copiously > in or as in a stream runeOE ayetOE yetOE hieldc1200 pourc1330 bleed1377 spouta1398 wella1398 outyeta1400 wellc1400 effundc1420 streama1425 shed1430 diffude?a1475 skail1513 peera1522 effuse1526 diffuse1541 flow1550 gusha1555 outpoura1560 brew1581 outwell1590 spend1602 spin1610 exfuse1612 guttera1618 effude1634 disembogue1641 profund1657 efflux1669 decant1742 profuse1771 sluice1859 a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 930 My wayes were bath'd in Butter, And Rocks about me Rills of Oyle did gutter. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 191 Darke and thicke clouds..guttered downe vpon vs huge and great drops of raine. 5. intransitive. Of a candle: To melt away rapidly by its becoming channelled on one side and the tallow or wax pouring down; to sweal. Also with down, out. (The chief current sense.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [verb (intransitive)] > gutter clome1393 gouta1400 sweal1653 gutter1706 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Gutter, to sweal, or run, as a candle sometimes does. 1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 236 The external coat, thus made, prevents them from guttering. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lv. 253 The candles flickered and guttered down. 1875 W. D. Howells Foregone Concl. iv. 149 A crown of..red formed upon the..wick, which toppled over in the socket and guttered out with a sharp hiss. quasi-transitive.1891 S. Baring-Gould In Troubadour-land vi. 68 My candle..guttered itself in no time into the tray of the candlestick.in extended use.1869 G. Meredith Let. 27 Dec. (1970) I. 409 I have turned Wendell Phillips like a drenching fireman's hose on a parson, and made him sputter and gutter and go to his wife to trim his wick.1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree I. i. vii. 90 With..a nose guttering like a candle.1917 T. S. Eliot Prufrock & Other Observ. 22 My self-possession flares up for a second... My self-possession gutters; we are really in the dark. 6. to gutter along: to drag existence along ‘in the gutter’.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1883 P. Robinson Sinners & Saints 44 They might have guttered along in helpless poverty..till old age found them in a workhouse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹a1300n.²a1734v.1387
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