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Synonyms for gutter

Grammar : Noun
Spell : guht-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgʌt ər

Top 10 synonyms for gutter
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Définition of gutter

Origin :
  • late 13c., "watercourse, water drainage channel along the side of a street," from Anglo-Norman gotere, from Old French guitere, goutiere (13c., Modern French gouttière) "gutter, spout" (of water), from goute "a drop," from Latin gutta "a drop." Meaning "furrow made by running water" is from 1580s. Meaning "trough under the eaves of a roof to carry off rainwater" is from mid-14c. Figurative sense of "low, profane" is from 1818. In printers' slang, from 1841.
  • noun ditch
Example sentences :
  • I can throw him in the gutter as easy as I could them young ones, and he knows it.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • A dozen times on the way home had Dirk been on the point of consigning it to the gutter.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • Why, they might just as well be thrown into the gutter and carried off in the scavenger's cart.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • You have begun life at the top of the tree, and you have chosen to fling your chances into the gutter.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • They gutter highways, but oftenest let Low Ways gutter them.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 3, April 16, 1870 » by Various
  • "Nor do I want to go back to the gutter," he declared fiercely.
  • Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • Brought up in the gutter, he was from the first incorrigibly lazy and vicious.
  • Extract from : « A Zola Dictionary » by J. G. Patterson
  • She still had to sweep the dirty water out into the gutter, and then do the final rinsing.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • I'll squat you down in the gutter if you don't look out, Miss Fine-airs!
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • He steps aside to avoid a cart, and runs into a man, who drops his cigar in the gutter.
  • Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
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