LOW-BORN, LOW-BRED
ADJECTIVES
► HEDGE-FATHERED of low birth, as if born in a hedge → 1891 Eng. dial.
► HEDGE-GOT of low birth, as if born in a hedge → 1891 Eng. dial.
► VERNACULOUS low-bred, scurrilous → 1605 obs.
► WAFF low-born, ignoble, without pedigree or honourable connections → 1815 Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ‘ARRY AND ‘ARRIET a typical costermonger and his, or any, coster lass; hence, any low-bred and lively (esp. if not old) man and woman → c1870 colloq.
► GADLING a term of reproach; a base, low-born person → 1297 obs.
► GUTTER-BLOOD a base-born or low-bred person; one of the rabble → 1818 Sc.
► GUTTER-CHILD a child such as haunts the street gutters, one of low birth or breeding → 1870
► GUTTERLING a person bred in the gutter; a person of low social status → 1846
► GUTTER-SNIPE a child brought up ‘in the gutter’; one of the lowest class; an urchin → c1869
► GUTTER-SNIPPET a child brought up ‘in the gutter’; one of the lowest class; an urchin → 1891
► JACK a man of the common people; a lad, a fellow; a chap; a low-bred or ill-mannered fellow; a knave → 1548 obs.
► MIDDEN-CROW a low-bred person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MONGREL a person of low or indeterminate status → a1585 derogatory, chiefly Aust.
► TYKE a low-bred, lazy, mean, surly, or ill-mannered fellow; a boor → a1400
Lexicophilia 