A derogatory slang term for a person considered to be of the lowest social rank or moral standing, evoking imagery of scavenging animals in the gutter.
A derogatory slang term for a person considered to be of the lowest social rank or moral standing, evoking imagery of scavenging animals in the gutter. The phrase is blunt and contemptuous in register and is typically used to dismiss someone as worthless or dishonourable. Now uncommon, it has the flavour of older vernacular insult language.
The neighbourhood regarded him as little better than a gutter dog after the scandal came out.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang, derogatory) A person of low social rank.
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