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All guttersnipe synonyms

gut·ter·snipe
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noun guttersnipe

  • beggar — A beggar is someone who lives by asking people for money or food.
  • beggar — A beggar is someone who lives by asking people for money or food.
  • vagrant — a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
  • derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
  • down-and-out — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
  • bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
  • dependent — To be dependent on something or someone means to need them in order to succeed or be able to survive.
  • suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
  • mendicant — begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
  • pauper — a person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.
  • stiff — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
  • drifter — a person or thing that drifts.
  • tramp — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
  • transient — not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory.
  • vagabond — wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic: a vagabond tribe.
  • hobo — a tramp or vagrant.
  • floater — a person or thing that floats.
  • beggar — A beggar is someone who lives by asking people for money or food.
  • urchin — a mischievous boy.
  • orphan — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
  • waif — a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
  • tatterdemalion — a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
  • bum — Someone's bum is the part of their body which they sit on.
  • loafer — a person who loafs; lazy person; idler.
  • wastrel — a wasteful person; spendthrift.
  • gamin — a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
  • scarecrow — an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.
  • cadger — a person who cadges
  • indigent — lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.
  • black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
  • bindle — a small bundle of possessions carried by a homeless person
  • almsman — a person who gives or receives alms
  • almswoman — a woman who gives or receives alms
  • tattered — torn to tatters; ragged: a tattered flag.
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