gutter dog

Definitions

1. 1

   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 !"
   • For that I weep not. But thou weepest for a stinking gutter dog. Curse on him that ever thinketh well of thee.
   • Before, I was sort of a gutter dog— just do what you have to do.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   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.

The neighborhood