gutter-blood Sc.
(ˈgʌtəblʌd)
A base-born or low-bred person; one of the rabble.
| 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xviii, The gutter-bloods! and deil a gentleman amang them. 1825–80 in Jamieson. 1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead iii. vii, A dozen young gutter-bloods, street-boys, would have been round him in a moment. |
Hence ˈgutter-blooded a., base-born.
| 1829 Scott Anne of G. xiii, The gift he hath for chastising the gutter-blooded citizens of a free town. |