Gutter vs Gurrier - What's the difference?
gutter | gurrier |
A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
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A ditch along the side of a road.
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A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
A space between printed columns of text.
(philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
(British) A drainage channel.
The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
(figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
To flow or stream; to form gutters.
(of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
(of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
To supply with a gutter or gutters.
To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
One who or that which guts.
* 1921 , Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)
* 2013 , Don Keith, ?Shelley Stewart, Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story (page 34)
(slang, Ireland, pejorative) spiv, rascal; lout, ruffian; street urchin
* [1954] 1967 : transcript of 's libel action; reprinted in Collected pruse , MacGibbon & Kee, p.172:
* 1966 , Seamus De Burca, The Irish digest, Vol. 86 , p.25:
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* 1980 , Padraic O'Farrell, How the Irish speak English , Mercier Press, p.22:
* 1983 , , Dublin , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192141244, p.3:
* 1994 , , The secret world of the Irish male , ISBN 1874597146, p.149:
* 1998 , Kevin Corrigan Kearns, Dublin voices: an oral folk history , p.201:
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As nouns the difference between gutter and gurrier
is that gutter is a prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water while gurrier is spiv, rascal; lout, ruffian; street urchin.As a verb gutter
is to flow or stream; to form gutters.gutter
English
(Street gutter)Etymology 1
(etyl) gotere, from (etyl) goutiere (FrenchNoun
(en noun)- The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.
- Get your mind out of the gutter .
- What kind of gutter language is that? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap.
Derived terms
* gutter ball, gutterball * gutter member * guttermouth * gutter plane * guttersnipe * gutter stickSee also
(pedia) * goutVerb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
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Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.
- An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter .
gurrier
English
Noun
(en noun)- "At the beginning of our encounter I want a definition. What is a gurrier? —It is a euphemism for the word 'gutter'.
At all events it is part of your verbal currency? —It is not. It is currency in Dublin."
- 'The Garda sergeant wanted to know the distinction between a Gouger and a Gurrier. Mr. Howard, who was a true-blue Dubliner, supplied the answer: "A Gurrier is a little man cut short, a mickey dazzler. He cuts a dash among the girls and is always willing and able to strike a blow for a pal. But our Gurrier, unlike the Gouger, never gets into trouble with the police."'
Committee on Finance. - Vote 6—Office of the Minister for Finance (Resumed)., Dáil Éireann - Vol.231,col.1076:
- : You are wrong on both counts and I do not resent the title “gurrier” at all.
A Pagan Place, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 0618126902, p.121:
- "She said the gentleman in question was nothing but a gurrier. She went into details over his garb and his accent. He wore a blazer with brass buttons and his trousers were gray flannel. He was the sporting type. His accent she said had to be heard to be believed, likewise his impertinence. She called him a pup. Then she said gurrier. Then she reverted to pup."
- "A 'gouger', 'gurrier', 'cowboy' or 'gink' is a bad type of fellow."
- "People from other parts of Ireland refer to Dubliners as Jackeens or Gurriers. Jackeen in the city always meant a cunning, loudmouthed, ignorant youth: while Gurrier was a term of approbation. In the Thirties and Forties to be a Great Little Gurrier was to be a bosom friend, a fine fellow, a taproom companion: but today it has been debased and is the equivalent of a bowsey or a gouger."
- "The old man told me that was nothing but a dirty little pup who had never done a decent day's work in his life, a dirty little gurrier who had run Ireland down for money"
- "A gurrier means a fella that was rough and tough and would pick a fight quite easily and his language wasn't the best"
Private Members' Business. - Crime Levels: Motion Resumed., Dáil Éireann - Vol.547,col.870:
- "Some weeks ago I was a victim of crime within 150 yards of the gates of . I was approached or set upon by a little gurrier with a syringe."
