guttersnipe

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas

From gutter + snipe.

I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe. — Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw
—Look at the young guttersnipe behind him hue and cry, Lenehan said, and you’ll kick. — Ulysses, James Joyce
She was some little guttersnipe of a music hall artiste in Paris—not even suitable for a morganatic alliance. — The Secret of Chimneys, Agatha Christie

street urchin

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