In Scottish English, 'gutters' means mud or dirt — especially the sticky, wet kind found on unpaved streets or muddy ground after rain.
In Scottish English, 'gutters' means mud or dirt — especially the sticky, wet kind found on unpaved streets or muddy ground after rain. Unrelated to the architectural gutter on a roof or road edge, this is a regional semantic extension describing messy, dirty conditions underfoot. Still in active regional use in Scotland.
The path through the field was pure gutters after the rain — we came home with mud up to our ankles.
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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.
(slang, vulgar) The iliac furrows (also known as a V-line), particularly of a man.
(slang, derogatory) A person of low social rank.
(derogatory, archaic) A street urchin.
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(Scotland) mud; dirt.
“bright side it was $PLTR gutters🩸”
“I've got plenty of the real stuff in my gutters if they want it”
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“When was the last time your gutters were checked or cleaned?”
“Well well well if it isn’t a other man with sculpted cum gutters showing up on my skyline”
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