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)
doing the gardener is one thing, but ALGORE, NO ONE can admit to that. tipper probably denies any sexual contact for the past 20 years.
Barry isn't enough of a fascist dictator for the Dwarf.
The truth is out there.
Cigarette Smoking Man also helped Stanley Kubrick stage the fake moon landings in 1969.
What I want to know is was he anywhere near Oklahoma City in 1995?
There, I said it.
i hope you safely make it across the pond without any black helicopters swooping down and carrying you off!! ; )
How disappointing that you link directly to the NY Times rather than to a FR thread that will include lots of nice CZJ pics.
i am confident of your ability to find the corresponding FR thread !
He supplied the fertilizer to McVeigh and Nichols.
I’ve got 3 more years on the Statute of Limitations to sweat out.
I’ll duck for cover if I hear “the hum of the rotors and the sound of the motors.”
seriously, have a FANTASTIC time and be sure to take lots of pix to share with us when you get home. esp look at TUDE stuff for me!
To cut my new aluminum downspouts, I had to go buy a pair of guttersnipes. (But why do they call them a pare, when I’ve always only seen one one French babysitter at a time?)
I don’t think Mo knows what “Oedipal” means.
robt, i moved the armillary you made me over to my new back corner garden, it looks great there, will have to take pix to share with you.
i noticed she didn’t expound on it, just threw it out there bc it sounded cool and greek etc.
I’ll take pics of London from the Eye, and Paris from the Tower.
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