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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(Scotland) mud; dirt.
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