gutter-bloodn.
/ˈɡʌtəblʌd/, U.S. /ˈɡədərˌbləd/, Scottish English /ˈɡʌtərblʌd/ Scottish.
A base-born or low-bred person; one of the rabble.
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1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 144 The gutter-bloods! and de'il a gentleman amang them.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Gutterblood, one meanly born, one sprung from the canaille; q. one whose blood has run in no purer channel than the gutter, S. ‘They maun hae lordships and honours nae dount—set them up, the gutter-bloods.’ Heart M. Loth. ii. 144.
1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead III. iii. vii. 224 A dozen young gutter-bloods, street-boys, would have been round him in a moment.
Derivatives
ˈgutter-blooded adj. base-born.
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1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein II. i. 14 The gift he hath for chastising the gutter-blooded citizens of a free town.
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