"gutter dog" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Joan of the Sword Hand, Dodd, page 202",
          "text": "So the starving folk dreamed and dreamed and woke, and cried out curses on them that had waked them, saying, \"Plague take the hands that pulled me back to this gutter dog's life !\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, Michael West, Aucassin and Nicolette, Done from the Old French by Michael West ..., Harrap",
          "text": "For that I weep not. But thou weepest for a stinking gutter dog. Curse on him that ever thinketh well of thee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, A. B. Shani, Susan Albers Mohrman, William A. Pasmore, Bengt Stymne, Niclas Adler, Handbook of Collaborative Management Research, SAGE Publications, page 502",
          "text": "Before, I was sort of a gutter dog— just do what you have to do.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jackie Collins, Lucky, Simon and Schuster, page 840",
          "text": "Lying, cheating, whore-mongering Casanova basta! How dare he. HOW DARE HE! Father of her children, faithful husband – or so he had always sworn. She had given him the best years of her life and he was nothing but a rutting gutter dog.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Emma Hornby, The Orphans of Ardwick, Random House, page 197",
          "text": "Clogged steps struck the cobbles as the little boy made his escape up Great Ancoats Street; swearing under his breath, the man threw Pip a furious look. 'You interfering gutter-dog. I'll snuff you out this time, you see if I don't! It's not as though anyone shall miss or mourn a parasite such as you, is it?'",
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      "glosses": [
        "a person low in social rank"
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        "(derogatory) a person low in social rank"
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        {
          "ref": "1947, Narayan Sitaram Phadke, Leaves in the August wind: A Novel with the Indian Upheaval of August 1942 for Its Background, Hind Kitabs, page 50",
          "text": "Her mother tried to persuade her not to keep the dirty gutter dog. 'If you do want a dog, we can have a nice terrier pup specially brought from the city,' she said.",
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        }
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gutter, dog."
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          "dog",
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          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "word": "gutter-dog"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Joan of the Sword Hand, Dodd, page 202",
          "text": "So the starving folk dreamed and dreamed and woke, and cried out curses on them that had waked them, saying, \"Plague take the hands that pulled me back to this gutter dog's life !\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, Michael West, Aucassin and Nicolette, Done from the Old French by Michael West ..., Harrap",
          "text": "For that I weep not. But thou weepest for a stinking gutter dog. Curse on him that ever thinketh well of thee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, A. B. Shani, Susan Albers Mohrman, William A. Pasmore, Bengt Stymne, Niclas Adler, Handbook of Collaborative Management Research, SAGE Publications, page 502",
          "text": "Before, I was sort of a gutter dog— just do what you have to do.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jackie Collins, Lucky, Simon and Schuster, page 840",
          "text": "Lying, cheating, whore-mongering Casanova basta! How dare he. HOW DARE HE! Father of her children, faithful husband – or so he had always sworn. She had given him the best years of her life and he was nothing but a rutting gutter dog.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Emma Hornby, The Orphans of Ardwick, Random House, page 197",
          "text": "Clogged steps struck the cobbles as the little boy made his escape up Great Ancoats Street; swearing under his breath, the man threw Pip a furious look. 'You interfering gutter-dog. I'll snuff you out this time, you see if I don't! It's not as though anyone shall miss or mourn a parasite such as you, is it?'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a person low in social rank"
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        "(derogatory) a person low in social rank"
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          "ref": "1947, Narayan Sitaram Phadke, Leaves in the August wind: A Novel with the Indian Upheaval of August 1942 for Its Background, Hind Kitabs, page 50",
          "text": "Her mother tried to persuade her not to keep the dirty gutter dog. 'If you do want a dog, we can have a nice terrier pup specially brought from the city,' she said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gutter, dog."
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    {
      "word": "gutter-dog"
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