Posted on 06/16/2010 6:04:19 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
guttersnipe • \GUTT-er-snype\ • noun 
1: a homeless vagabond and especially an outcast boy or girl in the streets of a city
2: a person of the lowest moral or economic station *
* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
Example sentence:
"Class is the great British reality, and the more books I wrote the more [Evelyn Waugh] termed me an unregenerable guttersnipe." (Anthony Burgess, The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1991)
Did you know?
“Unfurl yourselves under my banner, noble savages, illustrious guttersnipes,” wrote Mark Twain sometime around 1869. Twain was among the first writers to use "guttersnipe" for a young hoodlum or street urchin. In doing so, he was following a trend among writers of the time to associate "gutter" (a low area at the side of a road) with a low station in life. Other writers in the late 19th century used "guttersnipe" more literally as a name for certain kinds of snipes, or birds with long thin beaks that live in wet areas. "Gutter-bird" was another term that was used at that time for both birds and disreputable persons. And even "snipe" itself has a history as a term of opprobrium; it was used as such during Shakespeare’s day.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Here is my example with today's WFTD.
In Britain, a bunch of foul muslim guttersnipes hurled insults and epithets at British soldiers returning home from Afghanistan.
Muslim militants hurl abuse at military parade in Barking
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Only 
days left until BO's replacement is sworn in.
Get to class you slackers! I've opened a new classroom, but Dave forgot to get the gradebook from xsmommy. So if you're looking for a grade you'll have to ping her. Secret Garden and Tioga are usually pretty generous with the plusses if you compliment their shapely legs, so you might try submitting your homework to them instead. My secret for getting extra plusses on my A+ from xs will remain a secret between me and her, so you're on your own if you want her to review your work.
Oh, come on -
we can’t do much funny with “guttersnipe” by mispronouncing it or applying other meanings to it!
(someone will prove me wrong, I know)
Sorry. I just takes ‘em as I gets ‘em.
why the echo? ; )
laurie david is now denying boinking the treestump. i guess she was suitably humiliated by people reacting in horror!
Even a partisan guttersnipe
Could tell that “the speech” was such utter tripe
It just made me recoil
Hey, Barack—”It’s the oil!”
And sending it back down the Gulf drainpipe
E: Right. Now all we have to do is fill in this MP application form. Name:`Baldrick’. First name...?
B: Er, I’m not sure.
E: Well, you must have some idea...
B: Well, it might be `Sod off’.
E: What?
B: Well, when I used to play in the gutter, I used to say to the other snipes, “Hello, my name’s Baldrick,” and they’d say, “Yes, we know. Sod off, Baldrick.”
E: All right, right right right right, `Mr. S. Baldrick’. Now; distinguishing features... `None’.
B: Well, I’ve got this big growth in the middle of my face.
E: That’s your nose, Baldrick. Now; any history of insanity in the family? Tell you what, I’ll cross out the `in’. Any history of *sanity* in the family? `None whatsoever’. Now then; criminal record...
B: Absolutely not.
E: Oh, come on, Baldrick, you’re going to be an MP, for God’s sake! I’ll just put `fraud and sexual deviancy’.
Thought I’d bring in a FR thread to complement your RCP article.
Although she pines for him, that beech didn't want people thinking she had made an ash of herself.
oak-kay.... ; )
Someone still needs to explain the new pad in California.
royal twit.
I guess there are some things that are just too humiliating and embarrassing even for a HO.
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