In the medieval period: a person of low social status, esp. regarded as worthless or good-for-nothing; a rascal, vagabond. Also as a form of…

A male servant employed to do the most menial tasks in a kitchen. Also (derogatory): a servile or insignificant underling. Cf. scullion, n.

A domestic servant of the lowest rank in a household who performed the menial offices of the kitchen; hence, a person of the lowest order, esp…

A scullion.

a person employed to clean out street gutters, a scavenger; cf. channel raker n. at channel, n.1 compounds 2 kennel-raker, n.

a person employed to clean out street gutters, a scavenger (scavenger, n. 2a); (hence derogatory) a lower-class or contemptible person; cf. canel…

= proletarian, n. (in various senses).

derogatory. A person who is despicable, esp. one who is intellectually or morally deficient; a lowly person. Now rare.

Roman History. A member of the proletariat (proletariat, n. 2).

One of the lowest class.

A member of a low or poor social class. Cf. proletariat, n. 1b.

slang. A person of low (social) status. Also: a soldier. Obsolete.

A person bred in the gutter; a person of low social status. Also attributive = gutter, n.1 compounds 3.

U.S. figurative. The lowest class of society; a person of this class.

= proletarian, n. 2.

= gutter-bird n.

the sparrow, hence figurative, a disreputable person.

a member of an underworld.

An examiner's fourth-class mark (often the lowest grading category). Also transferred, applied to a person.

= proletarian, n. 2. Cf. prole, n.