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)
Donnie Iris's old girlfriend?
Or did you mean "Leia"?
So.... who watched President Guttersnipes speech last night without swearing back at him?
“Checking for signs of oil.” That’s one way to put it.
I’m having my spelling corrected, about Star Wars?
If I didn’t like you, I’d call you a pedantic geek :D
he’s an anal-retentive jagoff!
Ha!
sidney crosby would have been looking at the ground too. max talbot would have been eyeballing the thong wearer!
I hesitated for a while cause it might have been a geek test.
So did you totally miss my post to you about the “Greg and Donny” webshow?
i probably did, or if i saw it, it was via phone when i couldn’t click on it. with xsboy’s graduation and a brief i have due next week, i haven’t been fully FR engaged for awhile. i will go back and look for it.
I heard that Obama was a real gutter sniper...
they are great, who are they?
Don’t really know. I gather they are from the area. Very talented though.
When you read that do you hear their voices? lol Excellent
Could you two leaf the puns out of this?
I swear, I almost broke my staples laughing last night when I saw the thread about the MSNBC goofs whining that Odumbo didn't sound "Carteresque" enough for them. LOL!
Then, I read some of The Oil Drum articles about the Gulf oil mess, and I'm not laughing now...There is a very real probability this will never, ever stop.
:^(
I hear Edmund having the conversation with himself asking and answering the questions in two different tones.
Any history of sanity in the family?
None, *whatsoever*
Is it just me, or do you think lots of former ass kissers are starting to see the real Barry?
I confess I searched the FR postings to find that story, just for the C Z-J pics:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2535681/posts
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